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This site and other CCIM sites were offline for a while today. Of course, we first thought it was our problem. After tearing up a lot of time and effort and emotion, we found the problem was outside our network. The Internet Storm Center reported that the problem was that another ISP was "claiming" IP addresses that belong to AT&T.

Just a small typo and it took down a big chunk of the 'net for an hour.

Newsweek has a story about how Google is moving in on Microsoft's traditional turf, the Windows desktop.
How long before your use Google Write or Google Calc, applications that live in your web browser, not on your desktop and not licensed from Microsoft, as your word processor and spreadsheet?

Typically, Microsoft has not let this pass unnoticed.

I'm back to Copernic from Google Desktop. As I wrote a few days ago, I like the Google Sidebar, but I ran into Outlook related problems. First, when the new GDS indexed mail, Outlook removed the little envelope icon in the system tray that indicates new mail has arrived. Second (and more important), our voicemail system is integrated with Outlook.

IBM is working on a system described in this Infoworld article that looks through vendor records, warranty claims, weblogs, bulletin boards, and repair records to produce an early warning system for Navistar.

My favorite quote: "If you want to do analysis of unstructured textual data, the problem you have to deal with is that English, as people write it and speak it, is

What do you give someone who already has an H2 for Christmas? Segway XT

Continuing with today's theme...

Anybody remember Midnight Express? The authors of of Zotob and Mytob were arrested today in Morocco and Turkey by local authorities with help from the FBI.

Reported in the Washington Post's Security Fix blog.