Today was a networking Test-Dev offsite, where management tried to convince thier herd of cats to do some basic good software engineering practices. The best part was meeting more counterparts across the org, and the possiblities that we might actually start sharing tools and ideas, now that we for one momement saw our selves as a group. Oh… and the beef was good.

Starving Third World Masses Warned Against Evils Of Contraception [The Onion]

Supremes sympathize in copyright immortality case. Not that it matters [The Register]

Adobe digests Microsoft move. Analysts are divided over how Microsoft’s new XDocs electronic-forms software will affect Adobe Systems, which sees online forms as a new business direction. [CNET News.com]

Linux cheaper to run than Windows shock: The disappearing TCO study [The Inquirer]
Glaring flaws found, commissioned IBM fud?

Microsoft nixes TV copy protection. The software maker pulls back from a controversial plan that would have encrypted TV shows recorded on forthcoming digital media PCs. [CNET News.com]

Torvalds stays out of MS debate. Absence of Malice [The Register]

C.I.A. Warns That a U.S. Attack May Ignite Terror. A new C.I.A. assessment said Saddam Hussein, while now stopping short of an attack, could become “much less constrained” if faced with a U.S.-led force. By Alison Mitchell and Carl Hulse. [New York Times: Politics]

EU sets out eastward plans. The European Commission will announce a historic expansion to include 10 new member states and 75 million people by 2004. [BBC News | WORLD]

It’s been five years since the co-founders of Groove started their thing. Ray Ozzie recalls the event. Worth reading. Ray also went so far as to publish the original founding document. I also recommend reading this document. [Craig Burton: logs, links, life, and lexicon]