Author: p6admin

Microsoft is paying SCO according to this memo. If authentic, then it’s really a smoking gun for what most people have thought for the last year–that Microsoft was behind the legal suits coming out of SCO. SCO, for those who don’t know, bought some code from Novell for UNIX. Now they are suing everyone under the sun for using LINUX, which they claim was illegally copied from UNIX. It wasn’t, nor does SCO even own UNIX (another story) but the lawsuits continue.]]>

Mayday call & Coast Guard response can be heard. It’s a bit eerie though thinking about it. I couldn’t bring myself to listen to the whole thing. Kind of annoyed with the media attention this has received. 3 were killed immediately, but the other 18 were almost an afterthought even 48 hours after the accident. The water is 50 degrees and the life span of a sailor in that water isn’t that long. ]]>

Orkut doesn’t want me. ]]>

CNN is reporting that Spot, the President’s dog, has died at age 15. Spot was the daughter of Millie, a dog owned by the president’s father President George Bush. She was born at the White House in 1989, when the elder Bushes lived there. Spot was a spaniel and pretty cool. The Bushes have another dog, Barney, a Scottish terrier. Terriers are a bit of an acquired taste I gather. ]]>