I noticed that neowin has a story with a screenshot of sideshow. (This is not the longhorn one). I do suggest that people check it out, but check out this research paper instead of thier silly screenshot. The research paper has a number of screenshots. Sideshow has been one of my distractions at microsoft over the last year. I’ve written a ticket that tells me what’s being served at my cafiterria; one that hooks into my test machine automation informing me of when automated tasks are completed and the overall status of my machines; and even one that (with some hacking around in radio userland) tells me how many news items are waiting in the aggergator with a popup of the top ten. Double click the ticket and I get the web page or application to do more in. And there is still more that I have an itching to create.

RealNetworks Launches Versatile Streaming Server. SEATTLE (Reuters) – RealNetworks Inc. (RNWK.O) on Monday unveiled a new server capable of sending music and video over the Internet in all formats, including those of its digital media rivals Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) and Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O). By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]

 Den Beste posits into why Apple is in a bad situation. [TheFlangyNews News]

David McCusker esponds to something an anonymous Microsoft employee claims about features and file formats. It would be a bit more interesting if either of the source links worked, though that’s Mercury’s fault, not David’s. [TheFlangyNews News]

Look folks, Welcome to legacy, yesterday’s design points is today’s baggage, and god help you if you try to take out the trash.

Matthias sent out an article about modern interviews by Malcom Gladwell.

>Traffic Shaping on DSL? [Slashdot]

Dear god, people on slashdot think they know what the Windows Qos Packet Scheduler does. If you think it uses 20% of your bandwidth, or that it requies 802.1p, go back to the drawing board.

Bush Replacing AIDS Adviser Who Drew Fire. President Bush’s top adviser on AIDS, an openly gay Republican who has rankled conservatives is being replaced. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg. [New York Times: Politics]

Abortioniscybersquatting.com. One man has a history of trying to make companies pay to get their good names back. Another is an anti-abortion activist. Together, they are making people very unhappy. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]

Brad Templeton has the answer to the US Citizen Corps program. Inform on the informants. Good idea! [Scripting News]

Death and Taxes 2010.

“How long do I have?” James Pierson asked, trying to maintain eye contact with the man behind the desk.

“Three months, eleven days, seven hours and forty-three minutes,” David Barnett said. [More Like This WebLog]