Musings: [[One Year Later]]

Musings: [[One Year Later]]

Can this possibly be true?

WebSideStory, Inc. ( http://www.websidestory.com ), the leader in outsourced Web analytics, today reported that the percentage of Web surfers using Netscape worldwide continues to dwindle, and is now at record lows. As of Aug. 26, 2002, Netscape’s global usage share had dropped to 3.4 percent, down from 13 percent at this time last year, according to the independently produced report from WebSideStory’s StatMarket®.

Are they counting Mozilla and all of its variations in this mix?

But both sides think they should win.

Both sides want to end the copyright infringement lawsuit against popular file-swapping services Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster quickly–they just disagree on who should win.

I know who I think should win… if you’ve read [[Courtney Love’s Speech]] and [[Why The Recording Industry Sucks]], you should too.

If you’re a musician, you should definitely be on the side of the services, not the RIAA.

Apple has annouced the end of its classic operating system.

Apple® today announced that starting in January 2003, all new Mac® models will only boot into Mac® OS X as the start-up operating system, though they will retain the ability to run most Mac OS 9 applications through Apple’s bundled “Classic” software.

It’s about time. OSX is so far superior to the Classic MacOS in so many ways that its hard to conceive of a sentence that can mention them both in the same breath (although, I just did [[:-)]]).

Do you remember everything that’s happened so far on [[The Sopranos]]?

Check this out for a full episode guide so you can catch up before the premiere this next Sunday.

There’s a lot of cool movies coming out this fall. Which one are you most excited about?

This is yet another example, like Amazon’s **one-click**, that shows that this sort of thing shouldn’t be patentable.

eBay, one of the biggest success stories on the Web, is being threatened with a patent infringement lawsuit that could force it to modify its winning auction format.

Nothing breeds jealousy like success.

Even Microsoft doesn’t know how these attacks are happening… maybe its because they have a fatally flawed operating system?

Microsoft released further details of a rash of attacks on Windows 2000 servers that has so far stumped the software giant’s research team.

Does this really surprise anybody?

While the company wouldn’t say how many machines or customers had been victims of the attacks, Miller did say that it has been a significant number.

Dohh!! There’s nothing like keeping the public informed to build credibility.

Once again, the RIAA feels the need to flex its muscles in a futile effort to stop the spread of music.

An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song-swapping in the next few days.

Maybe this is why I’m having trouble finding some particular Chuck Mangione tunes (that I already bought 3 times).