Monday, January 28, 2002

Are techies coming back to your city?. This is sort of interesting -- talks about where tech jobs will recover first. [ZDNet Tech News] Mostly I think it's interesting because I like to think about effect the late 90s had on the skill sets in the tech industry and their geographic dispersion. 4:05:26 PM

XP successor Longhorn goes SQL, P2P - Microsoft leaks This interesting. Wonder what they'll do with a relational filestore aside from replace the registry? The referenced article also looks interesting. [The Register] 3:42:47 PM

Frontline ran an expose on the excesses of the dotcom boom. I saw it last week. Highly recommended.   [Scripting News] 1:24:41 PM

I had a great day snowboarding at Kirkwood yesterday. It was cold (below 20F) and windy in places, and snowed in the late afternoon. Even found myself in occassional white-out conditions -- very disorienting. But there was lots of fresh powder, especially on the backside. This is the first time I've ever understood why people like fresh powder. It's like floating. You just have to remember to keep your speed and always have one direction you can go that's downhill. 12:49:23 PM

XML-DBMS 2.0 reaches alpha. Ron Bourret announced the release of the first alpha of the Java version of XML-DBMS 2.0. [xmlhack] 10:31:19 AM

Economist.com | AOL Time Warner [Daypop Top 40] 10:06:09 AM

SEC probes RSA Security accounting practice. When do sales become revenues? [The Register] 10:03:44 AM

New tool: Easy Images from the Desktop. Praise Murphy!  [Scripting News] 9:58:00 AM