DILBERT NEWSLETTER
Although I’m as bugged by spam e-mail as you are, I recommend signing up for a very funny newsletter from Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. (Sign up at the Dilbert web site.) It only arrives three or four times a year, and it frequently has several things that...DELL REACHES GOAL, SHUTS DOWN
The Onion is a treasure. One of its stories this week is just perfect: AUSTIN, TX—After 18 years of striving, Dell Computer finally reached its long-stated goal to be the worldwide leader in computing systems Monday and promptly ceased operations. “We did...WEB SITE OF THE DAY
Several years ago somebody was asleep at the switch. The official White House site is www.whitehouse.gov, which is fine and right. But similar names were grabbed by third parties, which has caused nothing but grief ever since. Whitehouse.com is a porn site, which can...WALLACE AND GROMIT COMING TO THE WEB
Twelve one-minute films featuring Wallace and Gromit will be available for download this autumn, according to this article. This is the first new Wallace and Gromit material since 1995, and the feature film is apparently still several years away. (If you don’t...DAVE BARRY DOES WINDOWS
In case you missed it, here’s Dave Barry’s column today about life with Windows. “I bring this all up because now Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.’ To me, this...