Alertbox
Jacob Nielson nails it once again. I've seen our infraserver web pages of infrastructure data being viewed on a Palm pilot and while it works ... it's not what I would want to look through every day.

Wednesday, November 10, 1999 / 02:11 a.m.

GRASS GIS web site
Hey, GRASS goes GPL. Free GIS under LINUX. Now let's here if anyone in Canada has this working. Check out the discussion on Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/articles/99/10/29/2054241.shtml

Sunday, October 31, 1999 / 10:13 a.m.

Ho Ha Ho, great line eh!
Microsoft cares about developers, or they say they do -- and they should, because that's how they got to be the giant iguana of the software industry in the first place. DOS/Windows/NT has always been about as sexy as a Depends adult undergarment; but even if an OS ain't cool, it can still win by being super-dependable, ultra easy to use, or overwhelmingly popular with application developers.

Thursday, October 21, 1999 / 09:07 p.m.