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Daylight savings time starts tomorrow, so if you live in the US, then the 2 o'clock AM hour no
longer exists for tomorrow. Be sure to set your clocks ahead, unless of course you live in
Arizona, Hawaii, or part of Indiana.
Sega is officially going to make games for the
Microsoft XBox. However games for the Nintendo Gamecube and Sony Playstation 2 are not out of
the question, so perhaps we can still get Sonic on a Nintendo system. Who would have though that'd
even be possible in the early 90's?
AOL is declaring war on
Jabber, the open protocol Instant Messanging system that
also supports AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc, and so it's affecting 3rd party AOL Instant Messanger clients
everywhere. The client I use, Gaim can no longer support the AOL Oscar
protocol since AOL is making it so that only official AOL clients can connect to it. They have
written a paper explaining what exactly is
going on. This doesn't affect me too much, as I can still chat with my AIM friends via Gaim when
I'm in Linux, but I use Jabber in Windows so my only solution there is to use AOL's client. It is
yet another example of a major coporation trying to squash out the competition. Now all this stuff
could have been avoided if these coporations would just get together and create an open protocol so
that anyone could create a client for it, and so that everyone could connect with everyone else. But
alas we do not live in a perfect world unfortunatly.
The Daily Show, the hillarious "news" program
on Comedy Central, has won the Peabody
Award for excellence in broadcasting, due to it's "Indecision 2000" coverage. If you've never
watched this show, you are missing out because it's sorta like The Onion for TV.
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