1) UK Children Cause Earthquake in Giant Jump: Early estimates suggested 75,000 tons of energy had been released during the minute of jumping.

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2) Hewlett-Packard to Buy Rival Compaq -NYT: Computer giant Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HWP - news) will announce on Tuesday it is buying rival Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ - news) for $25 billion in stock, The New York Times reported on Monday evening, citing executives close to the negotiations.

While an agreement had been reached in the acquisition, specific terms were not disclosed, according to the newspaper. However, a premium is being offered for Compaq's stock, The New York Times reported.

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3) Advenio Software - Mac OS X Development: Jim : Advenio Software: SQLGrinder (http://www.advenio.com/sqlgrinder/index.html) -- "Query. Browse. Be more productive." "Advenio SQLGrinder is a native Mac OS X SQL editor and developer tool that makes your database development easier." I find development is easier when I don't have to write SQL at all. And no, that doesn't mean I use a GUI database editor/browser alongside my ASP/JSP/CFM/PHP code instead, it means I use something that writes the SQL for me. And no, that doesn't mean it puts the SQL into my source files for me, it means there is no SQL code in my source code, anywhere.

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4) The Omni Group: Applications: OmniOutliner: Type the description here.

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5) Timbuktu Pro For Mac OS -- Overview: Type the description here.

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6) Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site: Join Geocaching - The sport where YOU are the search engine. A GPS device and a hunger for adventure are all you need for high tech treasure hunting. Here you can find the latest caches in your area, how to hide your own cache, and information on how to get started in this fun and exciting sport.

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7) Multitasking is counterproductive and thrashing: CNN.com Study: Multitasking is counterproductive (http://www.cnn.com/2001/CAREER/trends/08/05/multitasking.study/index. html)

Finally, a study to back up what I always told my managers at CEISS --
I cannot handle working on 6 different projects at one time and do work that meets my quality expectations under strict deadlines.

I work best when I'm working on 1 or 2 tasks/projects.

Actually, Hal Jorch (http://www.google.com/search? hl=en&safe=off&q=hal+), the first manager I had at CEISS, really understood this. (He didn't stay at CEISS very long -- hint hint).

When I told him I was being asked to do too many things at once he taught me about thrashing (http://www.google.com/search? q=cache:jWZKEJgzuzk:www.whatis.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci214055, 00.html+), which is what happens when a multitasking operating system starts spending more time switching between tasks than performing the tasks themselves. He said it applied to people every bit as much as computers.

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8) BBC SPORT | WORLD ATHLETICS | Edmonton : Black and gold, new to old: A great article about some of the attractions in Edmonton. What they don't mention is Edmonton is one of the best cities in North America for cultural festivities. Known as the City of Champions, City of Volunteers and the City of Festivals, Edmonton is a great place to visit.

The article mentions the Muttart Conservatory (http://www.gov.edmonton.ab.ca/comm_services/city_op_attractions/mutta rt/), which is where Cheryl and I were married!

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9) Webkool Homepage: Artful and Tribeworks announced today the arrival of a new application server called Webkool. Webkool is written in Key, the versatile programming and description language that was developed by Tribeworks and used to construct Tribeworks' application authoring product, iShell. With it's flexible architecture based on XHTML and SQL, Webkool will allow multi-platform development of high- performance applications on systems including Linux, OS X, Solaris and Windows, on servers such as Apache, IIS and Zeus, and on server databases such as MySQL, Oracle and SQL Server.

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10) BBC News | AMERICAS | US rejects germ warfare plan: The United States has refused to sign up to an international agreement designed to enforce a ban on the use of biological weapons. Washington's representative to the United Nations-sponsored talks in Geneva said the US was unable to support the draft accord - the result of years of debate - because it would not achieve its goals and would hurt American interests.

The message that goes out now is that the world does not care about biological weapons - the most dangerous kind of all

Graham Pearson Biological weapons expert Donald Mahley said: "In our assessment, the draft protocol would put national security and confidential business information at risk."

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11) Coke Machine Accidents: Jim : ( quotes several paragraphs before finally saying ) This is just too stupid.

I : donot agree - Can I compare this to seat belt requirements... just because the chances of someone getting killed by a machine is less... doesnot mean we should not think about these issues seriously !

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12) Teoma Search: yet another search engine !

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13) Seattle Adopts Kyoto Limits, Scolds Bush: Dubbed the Emerald City for its lush urban forests and boasting some of the greenest power and waste programs in the nation, Seattle pledged to beat the Kyoto goal to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 7 percent from 1990 levels and try to cut three times that much.

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14) Weblogging: Another Kind of Website: One day in mid-March 2000 Raymond Yee of the Interactive University [1] thought it would be a good idea to buy and experiment with Manila, a web server application capable of supporting literally thousands of weblog websites. A bargain-priced education license was purchased, and Catherine Yoes downloaded and installed it on a rather ordinary NT server. Within weeks the IU experienced a revolutionary change in thinking about what a website is, how they're hosted, what they're used for, how they're built, and who owns them. A year and a half later all of the IU's websites are being produced using weblog technology, our team communications and sharing has been vitally enhanced, a number of our team members are regularly writing on the web, as are many of our University/K-12 projects and the K-12 teachers we work with.

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15) Lendl\'s Long Journey Gains Admission to Hall of Fame: Ivan Lendl's long sporting journey from playing on the hardscrabble courts of his youth in Czechoslovakia to becoming the most dominant tennis player of his era came to a proud conclusion here today when he was enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

Joining Lendl in the 2001 class was the Australian left-hander Mervyn Rose, who won two major singles championships — the Australian in 1954 and the French in 1958 — as well as four Grand Slam doubles titles.

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16) Jarrett House North : Apple: How to bury an important announcement: XML-RPC is a universal protocol that works over the web that describes how applications talk to one another.

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17) The Register: DesktopX - killer eye candy or the great Windows desktop liberator?: Jim : I've been a Stardock customer since, oh, 1995? Day 1, anyway. I bought their first product and probably the majority of the products they've ever released. Object Desktop (ControlCenter in particular) totally rocks. It's been on every PC desktop (OS/2 or Windows) I've used (home and work) regularly since I first saw it.

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18) Study for Philip Morris found smokers\' early deaths helped Czech finances - Jul. 16, 2001: Jim: 'No amount of sarcasm can trump how disgusting this is.'

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19) Boycott Adobe: Adobe helps graphic designers turn ideas into art. Adobe also helps turn security experts into felons.

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20) The Register : So what's the best country in the world for IT? : So what's the best country in the world for IT? and to live... Finland and Norway... - So we should visit these countries...

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21) WebDAV filewriter for Frontier : Jim : 'It's a shame (from my POV, probably not theirs) that UserLand diverged off their ContentServer path (which I think is the best CMS tool they ever made) when they decided to focus on writing and weblogging tools instead of sophisticated CMSs.'

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22) CNN.com - Beijing Games win divides world opinion - July 14, 2001: ..."Smiles Everywhere, Joy Ignites," blazed a headline in the Beijing Morning Post beneath a picture of a man spraying beer from a shaken bottle of beer. "56 Votes -- A Beautiful Win," read another in reference to the city's comfortable win in the IOC's Moscow vote...

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23) Distributed membership and preferences: Membership and preferences standards are a hot topic among independent developers, because of Microsoft's Passport, which is in rapid deployment now. Developers are now faced with a choice -- support Microsoft's membership system, and thereby feed customers to them, or develop an open, clonable and decentralized system, so that membership is a competitive space, not owned by one or two large companies.

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24) Caltech researchers successfully raise obelisk with kite : Caltech researchers successfully raise obelisk with kite to test theory about ancient pyramids

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25) Tennis Stars Agassi, Graf Expecting: Jim : 'Can you imagine the tennis player this kid could be? What a genepool to draw from. Congrats to them! I wish I knew where their house was in SF, at $23M it must be amazing!'

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26) Yahoo - Online Report Cards Draw High Marks: "It's making a difference in students' performances, and some would not have graduated if not for the new system."

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27) Womble: "Womble is a lightweight tool for extracting object models from Java bytecode. From bytecode, Womble extracts object associations, inheritance links, and class dependences."

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28) Salon.com Technology | Microsoft to schools: Give us your lunch money!: The software giant is cracking down on piracy in the public education system. But the campaign could easily backfire.

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29) Encompass Magazine, Charting a Sustainable Course - February / March 2001: Jim : "What an exciting concept! I would love to see this happen everywhere. Cars are the stinking dinosaur of the 20th century. Leaving the airport yesterday, I remember thinking to myself, "there's no way you pry the cars away from these people". And you couldn't take my car away from me right now. Life totally sucks down here without a car. The urbanized world will have to be redesigned to accomodate a car-free lifestyle but I think it would be more than worth it. I think it's critical for the future of our planet's environment, the environment our children and grand-children will have to breathe and play in."

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30) Curitiba, Brazil: Three decades of thoughtful city planning : actually via Tim - timct at mac dot com

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31) Jim Roepcke: I subscribe to his weblog via email...

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32) Scientist Says Mind Continues After Brain Dies: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A British scientist studying heart attack patients says he is finding evidence that suggests that consciousness may continue after the brain has stopped functioning and a patient is clinically dead.

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