Rough Drafts

Jonathan Rentzsch wrote a little JavaScript utility to help recover from 404:Page Not Found errors. It takes the current URL in your browser, and uses it to retrieve the archived version of that page from Google’s cache. Here’s Rentzsch’s discussion on Google cache hacking. Another blogger, Fuse, de

A press release by Unix publisher SCO Group claims that “Linux is an unauthorized derivative of UNIX and that legal liability for the use of Linux may extend to commercial users. SCO issued this alert based on its findings of illegal inclusions of SCO UNIX intellectual property in Linux.” Apparently

A survey by Microdoc News shows that the most successful (and prolific) users of Google take an “experimental” approach to searching, first trying simple one-word or multi-word queries, then trying other, more complicated queries until they find what they’re looking for.

I edited the Spring 2003 issue of RLG News, which was recently published.

Rep. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has introduced a “Freedom to Read” bill [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.1157:] that would restore privacy to the patrons of bookstores and libraries. The ACLU supports it [http://www.aclu.org/NationalSecurity/NationalSecurity.cfm?ID=12607&c=110], and you sh

From a blogjournal called eyeteeth run by Paul Schmelzer comes this interesting interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan [http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2003_04_20_eyeteeth_archive.html#92977561], intellectual property expert and communications professor at NYU.

A nifty site called Microdoc News [http://microdocs-news.info/] picked up my piece about file recovery using the Google cache today, as part of a short piece about the cache’s pros and cons [http://www.microdocs-news.info/newsGoogle/2003/04/22.html#a544].

My article on open-source development tools [http://www.cio.com/archive/041503/et_article.html] has just been published by CIO Magazine.

I discovered a new use for Google: Web page recovery service for hapless webmasters.

On March 21, more than 60 poets from around the world (India, Ireland, Trinidad, Australia, the U.S., Mexico, and more) submitted their haiku online, and I read them all aloud at Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, thanks to a solid WiFi connection.

In its online portal project, the state of California paid one vendor $3.2 million and another $8.4 million without comparing prices or analyzing other factors, as called for in state guidelines.

Tomorrow, which is the first day of spring and also World Poetry Day, tinywords will be hosting the first ever world-wide, WiFi, ad-hoc, open-mike haiku reading.