AnchorBank and Liberty Bank renewing and extending.

rosimmon on process improvement and developer tools for communication. As I say in a comment, I would add search, IM, and screen-sharing.

I'm never going to read this, but I'll bookmark it so I can make myself pretend like I will. Yay bookmarks!

"From a system administrator standpoint, he's getting a Java WAR file, and can use all the performance tools on the back end," he says. "At the end of the day, from his standpoint, he doesn't even know it's an ASP application."

"It works pretty well, and is thorougly worth a download and a play with if you are even remotely thinking about interoperability, J2EE, Linux, cutting costs, or just learning a new technology."

Providing wifi hotspots, kiosks, and computers. Check it out if you want to plunk down the Internet in your store.

"[C]ommercial skipping is just gravy. Take away the gravy, and customers should still be happy to eat their mashed potatoes." Another example of Doctrow's IP Law.

Review of Parallels, and side-note that Apple is now endorsing which is "the corporate equivalent of Jesus endorsing your sandals." Indeed.

...expect either weird partnerships with Friendster from Google, Yahoo, MySpace, etc. in the next couple months, or, barring that, law-suites. Or, someone could just buy them, even someone like IBM.

Hannover on Linux on July 24th.

Helping out future Nixons and Bushes.

Lotus Notes themed podcast.

Looks like a nice place to get away for the weekend...

Another podcast on Notes.

"Today's unbeatable platform is the web." Indeed, if you don't fit with the web, something weird/bad is happening OR you have The Next Big Thing.

...miffed at the lack of desktop GUI support in web apps. Yup...

Looks exciting.

The Reg digs into specs for Sun's upcoming Opteron boxes.

Whao..... I'm looking forward to such crazieness.

This is worse than peanut butter.