Non-banner Ads Coming to the Web. Porn sites have employed both the superstitials and pop-up windows method for a long time. It's probably more annoying than effective. I personally like the targeted banners, such as the one used by most search engines, where the ads are often related to your search query.

New XML parser for Perl. Sounds interesting, I'll have to play with it.

My Perl script which automatically converts IE's bookmarks or favorites to OPML is now available for testing. The code is fully commented, but there is no formal documentation, yet. If you're using MacPerl, you should turn the script into a droplet. Let me know if you encounter problems.

What Women Want is on top.

Salon on Apple. The cover story is right on the money as far as OS X is concerned. As it currently stands, OS X is a far cry from being the kind of high impact innovation people have come to except from Apple. OS X is a revolution for us, geeks, but is not much more than a candy looking OS for the rest of the world.

CDFinder also does Windows. I'll upgrade soon, I might even try the PC version.

Security Holes in MRJ 2.2.3. Not good.

Judge says Port Scanning is Legal. Also see the related Slashdot discussion.

Do cell phones cause brain cancer? If they don't, they definitely should when driving. ;-)

Gates calls on FCC to examine AIM. Sometimes Billy boy fights the good fight.

Oscars Get Martin-ized!. I'll still watch… the last 5 minutes. ;-)

Corel gets out of Linux business. They sold it for dirt-cheap too.

Sun's flawed tests delay Java certification process. You can't avoid becoming bug certified.

Applets: Still essential to Java. I've always been a believer of Java on the server-side, I'm not so sure about the client-side.

Even Dubya laughs at SNLís jokes. Will Ferrell is hilarious as Bush.