I was too busy working on a new project to update my weblog yesterday. A day without news is not a bad way to start the new millennium with. ;)

Euro continues rise. Talk about virtual money.

Dave Winer has an interesting story on meeting Bill Gates at Comdex back in 1987.

Salon's Crystal Ball. Salon makes its predictions for 2001.

AT&T plans big cable TV rate hike. This will be affecting us. Rates keep on increasing but the service is not getting any better. Welcome to "because we can" corporate America.

Macintosh: Audion 2.1. Hopefully it'll fix the crashes I've been experiencing.

FileMaker to discontinue HomePage. Anybody actually surprised by this? They haven't updated HomePage in years.

Linux 2.4 kernel almost ready In a note sent to testers on New Year's Eve, Torvalds acknowledged that he was unable to make good on his commitment to deliver a final release of 2.4 by December.

Losers of the Year.

Intel inside the portable gadget market. With an ugly 128MB MP3 Pocket Concert Audio player priced at $299.99? Intel is no doubt on top of the world, at least they firmly believe so. Watch them fall slowly.

Microsoft and Gates face $5bn class action suit. Evil Empire vs. worthless suit.

Since there was nothing interesting at the movies, we decided to rent a few DVDs and videos yesterday. So far we've watched 28 Days, which was better than we both expected, and The Storm Riders, which had a weak story line but featured an interesting blend of martial arts and cool special effects.

Adam Curry's prediction for 2001. I'm predicting Adam will let his hair grow back in 2001. ;-P

Official preliminary report of Air France Concorde Crash. "During the take-off run the front right tyre of the left main landing gear was destroyed between V1 and VR, very probably because it ran over a piece of metal. The destruction of the tyre caused damage, either directly or indirectly, to the aircraft structure and systems, leading to the crash less than one minute and thirty seconds after the destruction of the tyre."

I scored 345 on Archie McPhee's Nerd test.

President will be Citizen Clinton. As weird as it sounds, I'm actually interested in what he'll be doing next. I bet ya I won't care when Bush is ousted in 2004.

Chauvinist moms, deranged marriages, lesbian sperm donors, and more. Salon's pick of the best Mothers Who Think stories of 2000. I miss my mom, I like having her around for the holidays. ;-)

Think you're strange? Check out these oddball tidbits.

No computing news today. We've had enough of them during the whole year.

Song of the week: I Need You by LeAnn Rimes. Even though our favorite radio station plays it every hour or so, I still like the song.

Have a great last day of the year. See you next millennium.

Y-2000-wuz-OK. Adam Curry is collecting stories for a year-end look at 2000.

Clintons Buy $2.85 Million Washington House. Are they going to be able to swing the 30% down payment?

New Manila macro: includeHttp.

Artists, entertainers who gave their last bow in 2000. Thankfully nobody died after May 31, 2000, or so it would seem.

Salon: Here's a top 10 list that's 17 movies long! I like these kind of year-end Top 10 movie listing, I always remember them when looking for something to rent at the video store.

Boom-Boom vs. Boom-Boom. Give it up, Boris.

New RSS rendering Manial Macro. Nice. The boys at UserLand have been busy.

The year for open source. God forbid open source become the next buzz word.

Salon Critics' Top 10 films of the Year. I only saw X-Men and Almost Famous out of their ten.

Perl::Flash in Beta. Flash, Perl with a bit of reverse engineering. Quite an interesting combo.

Newer no more. "The saga of Newer Technology has been a tumultuous one as the company has struggled since 1996 to survive lowering profits, challenging competition and a dwindling Macintosh upgrade industry."

Shannen Doherty Busted. Bad girl turned good turns bad again. Maybe she'll pose for Playboy, again. ;)

Death of the PC. Some interesting numbers.

NY Times: Invasion of the Blog. This is what it's all about.

First Internet-based Elementary and Secondary School Open Doors. That's a very interesting concept to say the least.

Windows: McAfee VirusScan Definition update.

OS X: Think quality, not schedule. "OS X needs maturity, not age" -- Amen!

Mac version of StarOffice next summer? That would be nice.

Macintosh: Icab 1.3 Preview.

Slower Than Its Predecessor: Pentium 4. "Intel has spent five years creating this slower, hotter, much more expensive chip (and eliminating the Roman numeral from its name). What on earth was the company thinking?" -- Amen!

The best Salon Technology & Business stories of the year. Courtney Love's math, Napster clones, do-it-yourself giant brains and more.

Episode II In Trouble? Also see the related Slashdot discussion.

IBM claims fastest Unix workstation. Neener, neener… Mine is bigger than yours.

Book Review: Core Servlets and Java Server Pages. I have it but haven't had a chance to read it, yet.

Palm opens MyPalm Portal. I'm going to have to check it out.

Lead programmer for Microsoft's Internet Explorer moves to Java. The Evil Empire brain washing can be overcome! ;)

CNET: E-commerce Systems Examined. Blue Martini, BroadVision, WebSphere, iPlanet, MS Commerce Server.

FireWire CD-RW Review: Sony Spressa i.Link & QPS Que. I've been looking at both FireWire and USB CD-RW to replace my SCSI-based one. I need to get more educated before making a decision.