Blogging Roller

• Sony lockware prevents selling or loaning of games
  Intended for PS3? Will the XBox360 include similar DRM?
• Dept. of Homeland Security against Sony malware too
  DHS official to Sony: "It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property -- it's not your computer"
• Microsoft wipes Sony
  Microsoft "follows other makers of security software" in detecting and removing Sony malware
• Explorer Destroyer
  "advance your ideals, save people from popups and spyware hell, and make some serious money"
• Jython: slowest moving project ever?
  Berlin Brown: "Why can‘t Sun help out this project as it putt, putt, putts along"
• Getting Started with RSS
  Great HOWTO for RSS with Firefox, Bloglines, Google/ig, MyYahoo, RSSOwl and Google Desktop

• Debian package mgmt for OpenSolaris
  "I assumed that such a Xanadu would be a couple of years off at least"
• Nexenta GNU/Solaris
  "a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of OpenSolaris"

• Triangle Bloggers Bash
  Tuesday Nov. 15, 7-9PM: a social event for Triangle-area bloggers to meet and greet
• Podcasting via Sun Grid
  Sun to launch: "a retail service that generates audio podcasts from any text based content, such as weblog or web site."
• Windows Live ... lots of hiring to do!
  Rebranding MSN is not as easy as you think
• To LGPL or not to LGPL
  Why are GPL and LGPL the only choices? Go with CDDL, it's like LGPL but without the wrinkles

• XML.com: What Is Atom
  Ben Hammersley provides a short intro to Atom
• Atom 1.0 extensions
  James Snell describes Atom extensions he's developing for IBM's internal blogs

• Web 2.0 Cracks Start to Show
  "When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer."
• The amorality of Web 2.0
  "Might, on balance, the practical effect of Web 2.0 on society and culture be bad, not good? "
• Please God, just one more bubble
  Russell categorizes the flip-it-quick Flickr wannabes of Web 2.0

• Dreaming of an Atom Store
  Joe: "Let's roll up our sleeves and make it happen"
• Building an Atom Store
  Mark: "It's coming. Within weeks, not years"

• JBoss and Microsoft
  That's the "big" announcement?
• Web 2.0 meme map
  Apparently the so-called Web 2.0 is just a rorschach test, what do you see?
• Not economic integration?
  "the latest laughable Times report about those 'schools that work'"
• Raible evaluates CMS options, Pt. I
  Raible evaluates Java, Perl and PHP CMS options
• Raible evaluates CMS options, Pt. II
  He notes that none have blogging features as good as Roller
• JDS and OpenSolaris
  "goals for the desktop community, why OpenSolaris was important, and what our plans were for JDS."

• What is TailRank?
  Kevin Burton: "TailRank is my new startup"
• Business Journal on Converge South
  "conference that will bring prominent journalists and bloggers to Greensboro "
• Economic integration
  Raleigh effort "most ambitious in the country to create economically diverse public schools"

• Not So Simple
  Interesting article on RSS ads, mentions Sun

• InfoWorld: A Galaxy of opportunity
  "a sweet server that will surprise Sun's competitors and server shoppers alike"
• eWeek: Sun Debuts 'Galaxy' Servers
  "This is why Sun Microsystems Inc. brought Andrew Bechtolsheim back"
• eWeek: Bechtolsheim interview
  "Bechtolsheim touts power of the first Galaxy servers and says more models are on the way"
• CNET: Bechtolsheim's machine dreams
  "it's hard to make one x86 system stand out above the crowd"
• CNET: Galaxy remakes Sun's server strategy
  Fowler: "the fastest, most energy-efficient and reliable x86 servers in the industry"

• FCC coordinaes Katrina tech aid
  "Lack of communications systems has been identified as a critical issue holding back aid, missing persons, law enforcement, etc. in crisis areas."
• Sun's helping
  "to construct Internet access points so those affected may access email, search for missing loved ones and connect with friends and relatives desperately awaiting news."
• Katrina.com
  Katrina turns her site into hurricane relief site
• Lie corrected
  The lie: "As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency"
• Homeland insecurity
  "devastating indictment of this department's performance"
• Bush's Katrina plan
  "to move the blame for the slow response to Louisiana state officials"
• FEMA "chief"
  Brown was "fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows."

• Dell in the Bloghouse
  "your product was a lemon, and your customer service was appalling"
• Is Dell Dying?
  "Dell had the bad luck to tick off a very powerful blogger."
• Why weblogs?
  "Why would an enterprise choose to embrace the idea of blogging by its employees?"

• To blog or not to blog
  Sam Ruby and other locals in NandO article on employee blogging
• RSS mystifies most
  Blog readers "do not understand how RSS works"
• US gov in DRM?
  "Schwartz said that he believed the federal government should be involved in DRM standards."
• Open source DRM
  Sun is releasing its code from Project DReaM (DRM/everywhere available) under [CDDL]
• Jonathan on DRM
  "You'd have to start by proving I've stolen something"
• DTrace and Ruby
  "Rich Lowe has made available a prototype Ruby DTrace provider."

• Solaris 10 engineers
  "highlighted Sun as the leading source of innovation in the enterprise Unix market."
• Blog, but not about Apple
  Apple's retail employees forbidden from blogging about Apple?
• Sun and Derby
  "a lone engineer in an room with three other people at 8:30 at night gets the news out. "
• Opera Mini
  Java-based Opera web browser for J2ME mobiles
• War on terror
  Unix geek style
• War on terror t-shirts
  Unix geek stylin'

• State of the Blogosphere, pt. 1
  Doubling every 5.5 months (not counting spamblogs) and 55% of blogs are active
• Intro to Atom
  On atomenabled.org
• Snell's Atom overview
  Technical overview of the popular Atom Syndication Format
• Windley paraphrases Graham
  "Open source and blogging show us what real work looks like"
• Blog 500
  Jason: "I’m sick of the Technorati 100"
• Rating OSS
  Steve: "I'm not so sure about is this proposed rating system for OSS apps"
• Boycott IE7
  Slashdot: Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott

• JES wins at GM
  GM CTO: "expanding our infrastructure to the full Java ES stack"
• Register: Sun posts flat Q4
  "beat analysts' expectations of 1 cent earnings per share"
• InfoWorld: Sun revenue down
  "Sun's product line is in the midst of a transformation"
• CNET: Sun posts profit
  "and it set plans to cut its work force by 3 percent"
• NYTimes: Sun beats forecasts
  "But the company's revenue continued to fall"
• JavaCast
  Finally, a podcast for Java developers

Bejeweled
Originally uploaded by snoopdave.

Hippified jewelry store in downtown Boone, NC (taken at dusk). Boone, by the way, was named after frontiersman Daniel Boone, who once camped here. According to Wikipedia, Boone claimed to have killed a Yahoo, which is "a vile and savage creature, filthy and with unpleasant habits."

• SOAP substitute?
  Bill: "Atom, RSS and the Atom [protocol] could disrupt SOAP and WS"
• Congrats Noniko!
  Noniko: "my 3rd How-to book was published. It's on Sun Java Studio Creator"
• Noniko's books
  Noniko has written how-to books on Eclipse, Netbeans and Java Creator Studio
• Sam Ruby: Atom 0.3 Denouement
  I agree with Sam, if your're supporting Atom 0.3 please stop

• RSS and Atom compared
  The differences between the RSS 2 and Atom 1.0 syndication languages.
• Atom 1.0 Ships
  Bill: "Now, onto the Atom Publishing Protocol"
• ongoing · Atom 1.0
  Tim: "It’s cooked and ready to serve"
• Secure RSS
  Secure syndication in BlogLines via GreaseMonkey and BlowFish... now that's cool!

• Sun blogging policy
  Orignally drafted by Tim Bray, the policy now has a home on sun.com
• Interview with P@
  Interesting interview with Pat Chanezon on syndication past, present and future
• CDDL is Open Source
  Jim: "Marc Fleury is either the most misquoted CEO in history, or he really doesn't know what Open Source is"
• Trouble in ROME
  Alan: "I will be publishing the extra classes you need to extend ROME to handle more liberal formats"