I should have linked to this yesterday ;-) - The Register | You've got Blogs! AOL buys into homegrown media

"AOL gets it! Steve Case gets it!" beamed Dave Winer today, after brokering a deal that sees two hundred of the most popular weblogs become part of the AOL-Time Warner publishing empire.

As if any confirmation is needed, the long Easter weekend has been a long break from the normal dialy grind. Not that I've been doing nothing. It just looks that way from the lack of updates and news on DJ ;-)

Tom's Hardware Guide Columns: Shock, Horror, Amazement - Nvidia Buys AMD

It looks like Nvidia has everyone fooled. In a move that's bound to shock, horrify, and amaze, Nvidia buys AM

This news shouldn't come as a surprise today of all days.

Yesterday Pauline and I spent a lovely evening with Peter (PC) and Jill Brown and their daughter Kerry and son-in-law Ross. Peter, Jill, Kerry, and Ross are a major part of our (small) combined family and time spent with them is always special.

Jill is the consummate hostess. PC is the consummate host. Ross and Kerry and just like Pauline and me. The supper Jill and PC prepared for us was superb. As was the conversation and banter. I guess that's why we had such a lovely time ;-)

As an ex-captain of the Scotland rugby team and, by popular acclaim, the best captain of the past 30 years, PC is a larger than life character with such a rich seam of personal life stories, that he is now an established part of the professional after-dinner-speaker circuit. For his last birthday, it seemed appropriate to register pcbrown.org, and help to set up his website, as a novel birthday present. Expect to hear more about PC's websiet once it's up and running.