I can’t say that I agree with Mr. Conway of PeopleSoft in regard to his comment about .Net last week…

“PeopleSoft president and CEO Craig Conway has described Microsoft’s .Net initiative as the information technology equivalent of asbestos.”

“Conway then added that, in his opinion, Microsoft’s .Net strategy will not help business to control the costs of their enterprise applications, as it assumes code will be executed by PCs.”

Specifically, the second quote certainly seems a bit hypocritical since PeopleSoft up until version 7.02(?) was a hard-core Client/Server based application environment.

However, perhaps it is a sign of how far these titans of client/server computing have progressed in the last 5 or so years.

As far as this goes with .Net, in the short-term, PCs and especially Windows-based applications are not going away — Especially in the enterprise. It’s not something you can ignore or displace. Their ubiquity is a reality.

IMHO, .Net provides a means to enhance disparate desktop applications and provide the edge-glue to integrate with business process and enterprise legacy applications a like.

This is pretty slick — create your very own mug shot with Flash Face

SideBit’s Project
Locate IP will try to figure out where an IP is physically located.
It worked fairly well in my tests.

Even though I applaud AOL’s recent Spam lawsuits, catbird points out the irony:

“As much as I detest spam, I am having trouble cheering for a company that sends me unsolicited CDs in expensive and non-biodegradable tin cases every month. Which is worse, email spam or polluting the earth with waste?”

Allegedly for $10 per year, Mailblocks Eliminates Spam “and offers the powerful features you want in your web mail.”

According to Kevin it’s brought to you by Phil Goldman, who is one of the founders of WebTV.

From Discover “… the software will create a remarkably sophisticated assessment of your various social groups, showing you not only their relative size but also the interactions between different groups.” (link via BoingBoing)

I can’t believe it has been almost 10 years since NCSA Mosaic burst onto the scene. I remember making the jump from Gopher Servers and thinking, “Wow, this should make things interesting.”

It certainly did …

And Charles Cooper has an interesting perspective on What if Netscape had won?

Interesting Slashdot thread that argues the effectiveness of email, which is in response to this article.

Heh, this is probably old news to some, but I just read about this clever hack in PC Mag to block ads by modifying your local host file

Ha! This is very cool. Mark has created a Magnetic Poetry Generator that will create a word list based on the content found within a page you reference at the end of the path.

For example:
http://diveintomark.org/magnetic/http://news.google.com

BTW, Mark also has a hilarious 404 page as well.