March 1998

• Unforgettable Letters collected by the Post Office.
• IBM offers an Internet Intrusion Test. Hackers in Blue Hats?
• A judge says Microsoft not Java Compatible.
• Apple, on the other hand, has QuickTime for Java
• Washington State has a spam law.
• Andy Grove left Intel yesterday. Behind every great company, there's a risk-taker and Intel charts new course after Grove talk about the before and after.
• Gophers win NIT. We're number 65!
• Ultimate Collection of News Links
• Find A Grave tells where famous people are buried.

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

• AntiOnline covers hacking and hackers.
• Have you read The Onion yet? Why not?
• Frames Suck Most of the Time.
• The Nolo Press tells you How to Appeal to the IRS.
• Wanna look up a word: Webster Search, WWWebster Dictionary. Or maybe you just want an alternative and should look at Roget's Internet Thesaurus.
• HP deserts Sun on Java. Write once, run where?

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

• Lloyd Bridges dead at age 85.
• John Walker used to work at Autodesk. Now he's busy putting useful things on the web. Don't venture here unless you've a few spare hours.
• Coke sells a billion per day. That's a lot of soda.
• Galileo found Water on Europa.
• Fortune: AOL Wins!
• Write once, run on Windows talks about Visual J++ 6.0.
• Think Moore's law only means that chips get faster? It also means they get smaller: Old technology lives on.

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

• Lunar Prospector found ice on the moon!
• Wanna go hunting imported cars? According to Reuters, there's nothing like American Steel: Explorer crushes Accord.
• Dan Gillmor talks about Duplicity in valley hiring. Maybe the US doesn't need to increase the H-1B visa quotas
• Henny Youngman Remembered - Take my life, please.
• J.T. Walsh R.I.P. Played a lot of cowardly bad guys, according to The Internet Movie Database.
• Before computers brought us type-stretchers, fillers were a major part of newspapers' contribution to lore, and the Bus Plunge was a favorite subject.
• Y2K Lawsuits are already hitting, and there'll be more.
• The Apple Store is selling the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh for $1999 (compared to last year's intro at $7500).

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