Outlook Hopeless!(tm) is a reiteration of guidelines for my students when they are e-mailing me ;-)

Adam Curry's Weblog : Weblogs in Education

"Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated." Thomas Moore

Gotta love that Oban Ladies Man* cartoon further down the page too!

* This is my favourite anagram of Osama bin Laden ;-)

John Robb's Radio Weblog

XP product activation is needlessly anti-consumer. Correct.

The larger game plan is focused on building a direct connection to consumers to compete with AOL. Here's the game plan:...

Brian's Knowledge Logging with Conversant article is definitely an incentive for me to sort out the Jotter:

Following on the things that John Robb has been writing about knowledge management and web logs, I've really started to use the term "knowledge logging" to describe what I do on the various web sites I run. To be honest, I really don't care about the web or weblogging or Blogger or Manila or Conversant -- what I care about are a) the things I already know, b) the things I learn that I didn't know, and c) the interconnections and intersections among the things I know.

via Scripting News - Using RSS News Feeds - Webreference.com

I updated the list of memorable lecturing moments to include the 'DMA' lecture. Unfortunately DMA in its full form has a very unfortunate spoonerism. You might like to check out The history of spoonerisms to find out how/why!

The Register: MS promotes Linux from threat to 'the' threat - Memo By Thomas C Greene in Washington

"Linux is the long-term threat against our core business. Never forget that!" Microsoft Windows Division Veep Brian Valentine exclaims in a confidential memo to his Sales Brownshirts obtained by The Register. (our emphasis)

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It's no secret that MS has long regarded Linux as a threat, at least not since Eric Raymond broke the news two years ago with the infamous Halloween Documents. But it's lovely to see it becoming the threat, apparently because it empowers people to operate computers and networks without buying into the nebulous Microsoft .NET vision, which, as you'll see below, the company thinks of as something to be 'positioned' by its products.

In today's low-level programming lecture I was telling the students of the old Ambrosia (remember that means MS!) mantra - Google Search: "DOS ain't done till Lotus won't run". See for example: link.archive.9710: Re: MS gets creamed!.

Since Billy has a habit of lying about how benign Ambrosia is, history indicates otherwise. E.g. Lotus, DR-DOS, Netscape... Who'll be next?

Wonka

Wonka is ACUNIA's cleanroom Virtual Machine for the JavaTM language. It is extremely portable and self-contained, and can optionally be used with its own real-time executive (OSwaldTM) to provide a complete solution for embedded devices. It is a full implementation of the Java language, not just a subset. And it's Open Source.

aD's Vox Populi: Polling Software for your Website

Vox Populi is a free service that allows you to set up polls on your own website with real-time calculations of results. You control the content, even the look of the result pages, as well as how you want the poll to function.