Monkinetic Weblog

MSNBC is carrying a WSJ article about the controversy over business-process patents. I don't know what the solution is to this, but it's good to see the issue coming up in the courts and legislative systems. Now, if they can only keep from breaking the system even more...

"ArsTechnica" has an article on Mac OS X. Ars Technica always casts a keen eye over the material for their reviews. They are extraodinairily thorough - if you're a Mac OS X fan, or curious, definitely read this.

eMedicine has been granted a patent on an internet-based publishing system. This is not good. I wonder how big the CMS company will have to be to get slapped with licensing or a cease-and-desist letter? This big? This big? This big?

Have you ever had the experience of knowing about something that was going to ROCK, and not be allowed to say jack about it? I have.
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"Jim"'s been busy today, and has links and opinion on violence in hockey, Corel and Microsoft, and more. Check him out...

MacNN has a very useful Mac OS X site at http://osx.macnn.com/ with information on Samba and OS X, a windows/samba client for OS X (!) and more. Check it out!

As seen on Brian Carnell's home page, I've added Labels to my weblog entries. You can click the label to see all messages with that label, making it easy to see all my weblog postings about XML, Mac OS X, or Software Engineering, for example.

HP has an API called Jena for manipulating RDF in Java. I'm definitely going to check this out.

For those of us running Apple's new beta OS, Stepwise is your source for the useful, cool, and interesting applications we need.

Ever the outliner enthusiast, I downloaded Omni Outliner. It's not half bad. Not to mention that it runs on one of my favorite OSes. ;-)