February 1998

• How to foster loyalty among employees is a look at the changing job market.
• Raising roof on visas is a discussion of the changes proposed for H-1B visa quotas.
• Hackers attack pentagon (and other places).
• Universe expansion is accelerating - maybe there's a fifth force.
• Lastly, We've got the "IE 4.0a Installer" for Macintosh locally.

Weather in Minneapolis for February 27, 1998     February 27 in History

• Dan Gillmor talks about Spam: a harmful Net byproduct.
• Millionerds talks about The Road Behind.
• Wanna know how much disk space you can save by converting to HFS+? Ask MacSlack.
• Nervous about the Standoff with Iraq? It's not all bad, as shown by Weapon stocks soaring.
• Wondered why RAM is so cheap?
• Here's a list of bookstores for the nerd:
  • STACEY'S Professional Bookstore was one of my two favorite stores in Cupertino. The stores are pleasant, well organized, and the salespeople have a clue. The only downside is that they don't have the breadth of the mega bookstores.
  • Computer Literacy was the other favorite. It's just plain Nerd Book Heaven. They even have a little fiction. The fact that it was on the Apple campus helped a lot. Convenience is good.
  • Amazon.com is the biggest online book store.
  • Barnes & Noble is a close second. I shop 'em in person more often than online.
  • I haven't actually bought anything from Book Stacks Unlimited (aka books.com), but they sometimes have a slightly cheaper price.

Weather in Minneapolis for February 20, 1998     February 20 in History

• CNN has a Swanky Love Palace. Happy Valentine's Day.
• Compose a poem to your Valentine using Online Magnetic Poetry.
• BYTE Magazine has an article about Building the Virtual PC.
• Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
• Committe for the Moral Defense of Microsoft. The link initially came to me in an email titled "The creepy Ayn Rand cult"
• Let's pie! Let's pie! Nincompoop guys! is an interview with the leader of the gang that pied Gates.

Weather in Minneapolis for February 13, 1998     February 13 in History

• Good news in the fight against spam: FTC issues warning to spammers
• LAN Times Online has an update on Junk E-mail.
• cool404 tracks the coolest "File Not Found" message.
• Cold calls find vulnerable computers.
• Tom Cargill on Exception Handling.
• Don Crabb talks about Apple's strategic retreats in distribution.
• Small town takes Net tells about the Internet on the Olympic Peninsula.
• Bill Gates hit by cream cake.
• Laundry: A Quantum Approach.
• Jesse Berst lists the Seven Deadly Web Site Sins.

Weather in Minneapolis for February 6, 1998     February 6 in History