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Adding a nice little recording is a lovely training aid.

Who watches the Watchmen?

Wasn't Higgins the guy on Magnum PI?

MySQL buffs up to face the Oracle challenge by hiring InterBase/Firebird architect.

Now Google helps you search for cash.

News for Monday, February 27 2006

Oracle seems to be hell-bent on controlling the dominant Open Source database platform MySQL to make sure it stays in its place and not encroach on the Enterprise database market, but what if Microsoft started doing the same thing?

Now Google is in the hosting business. 100MB for your stuff at googlepages.com.

Oh my god! We're all going to die. What? 440 million light years away? OK, we're safe..

Join FOB (Friends of Bob) today.

He visits me in my dreams

On Feb 27th, HP will become the last of the big four enterprise management providers to announce its strategy for creating a common configuration management database scheme.

Does anyone still "Ask Jeeves?"

Millions of thumbs still awaiting a final resolution.

The US Patent Office just granted a web design firm called Balthaser a patent on "methods, systems and processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the Internet." Oh, boy. Another round of lawsuits.

The risk and identification software keeps an eye on user activity

AJAX Enables Pages Without Having to Write a Single Line of Javascript

In galaxy far, far away...

Stumble around, but RTFA here and at MSDN.

A student's third best friend (after beer and ramen)

Whoever downloaded the billionth song won a new 20-inch iMac, 10 60GB iPods and a $10,000 iTunes Music Card. A music-school scholarship will also be set up in their name. Isn't that just iWonderful?

What? People don't want e-stamps on their e-mail. Surprise.

A federal judge complains about the lack of a settlement between RIM and NTP over the BlackBerry patent dispute, but fails to decide on an injunction, while RIM gains some ground by winning its second patent with the USPTO.

Google's newly appointed philanthropy chief is rallying industry support for an ambitious plan to create a global early-warning system to identify and prevent the spread of infectious diseases and other disasters.