My brother Richard and my sister-in-law Joy came round last night. We ended up watching the BBC - Test the Nation programme and, for a laugh, took part in the IQ test. Given the fact that we were also chatting and partaking of wine, or beer, and snacks, we probably didn't do ourselves justice ;-)

Dave's RealNames and Microsoft replication of news from Keith Teare's Web Site is less likely to suffer link-rot. Here are Mr Teare's words from his current home page:

Last Tuesday Microsoft informed me that it was not renewing RealNames Corporation's contract to resolve Keywords in the IE browser. When the current contract comes to an end on 28 June 2002 the service will be terminated.

I am no longer an employee of RealNames. Along with 79 others I was terminated on Friday 10 May, 5 years after starting the company.

I am sure that Microsoft will do an excellent job of misinforming the public about the reasons for this decision and so I want to put the record straight...

via hbwt | More trouble with copy-protected CDs - Apple advises on ejecting copy-protected audio CDs

By now many consumers are aware that the music industry is beginning to press audio discs that have been copy protected to prevent them from being ripped to MP3 on a PC or Macintosh. But did you know that in some cases, if you insert such a disc, you might not be able to get it out again?...

The Evolution of Darwin

Darwin has been a groundbreaking project on many fronts. Its hybrid BSD architecture is a technical triumph that makes life immeasurably better for both users and developers. What's more, putting the core of its commercial offering into the hands of the open source community has made Apple the first major computer manufacturer to fully embrace the open source movement. For Mac OS X developers and users alike, that move opens the door to the many benefits -- from better code to a stronger community -- offered by the open source model.

via hbwt - CNN.com - IBM, startup launch massive gaming 'grid'

A start-up, Butterfly.net Inc., and computing giant IBM , have created a global network for online video games capable of supporting a million players or more that will be rented to major game publishers, the companies said Thursday.