I have recently come across a German site which cloned my theme. Looking at the similarity in terms of layout is somewhat surreal. Sadly, that site appears to have become dormant last year.

Fortune Magazine reports that Michael Dell, who has already become Linux-friendly, is interested in licensing Apple’s Mac OS.

…Dell (the company) has for several years fearlessly—and lucratively—sold servers loaded with Linux, the operating system Microsoft reviles and dreads. And as the industry’s top dog it wields more bargaining power with Microsoft than other PC-makers. So I emailed Michael Dell, now the company’s chairman, and asked if he’d be interested in the Mac OS, assuming that Apple CEO Steve Jobs ever decides to license it to PC companies. (For now, Jobs says he won’t.)

In the past two days, I noticed the Nazi analogy being used twice in two separate newsgroups in UseNet. That was when the point when members brought Godwin’s Law to everyone’s attention.

As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one…

…whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress…

Bill Gates arrested in his younger days (photo in public domain)

How long can this go on? The BBC reports that yet another Windows flaw has been discovered. And once again, hundreds of millions of obedient users will go out of their way and patch up their operating system.

Windows users are being urged to download the latest security updates from Microsoft to fix critical flaws.

The software giant has warned that three loopholes affecting Windows and Internet Explorer allow an attacker to take control of a personal computer.

In the mean time, ever since the Apple move to Intel, some people have installed pirated versions of Tiger (Mac OS X 1.4) on their Intel PC‘s.

n this day and age when people become more familiar with the term “blog”, there is a certain dissatisfaction — some would say an anti-climax.

Blogs are a linear form of publishing. There is barely any hierarchy and rarely a connection between items. There are no levels, sub-levels, or context and hence there is little or no interest in blog archives, which often become a graveyard. Fortunately, only about 5-10% of this site’s content is arranged in the form of a blog.

Also see contextually-related items called Blogging Burnout or Business Week Blogs and Business.

Life in Manchester involves passing by some worrying signs. Here are a couple that I grabbed a picture of:

I am slightly confused by the upside-down car, but I’d say these figures are terrible news

This one speaks for itself

Ever wondered how popular your first name was? Is it becoming less common as the years go by? Or is it on the rise? It takes only 5 seconds to find out.