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This is a good touchstone for new web designers looking to conform to standards.[ mezzoblue ��� Standards Resources for Beginners ]

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits has an article about this hot topic.

H-P’s first Linux laptop a winner. MSNBC columnist Gary Krakow’s first impressions were positive and that’s good news. The nx5000 “works right out of the box”. The main complaint he had was that you still need to know a lot more about the inner workings of a computer to excel on a Linux machine.
Hewlett-Packard should [...]

Via Howard Rheingold, Experience Computing: Viable future alternatives to the keyboard interface. Sony’s page has a flash presentation demoing new interface ideas. Catch and throw? Why not!

Edinburgh’s 50 best jokes in the Independent. Some funny stuff here for a break.

I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat.
Marcus Brigstocke at the Assembly Rooms

Though you’ve probably all seen it, if you haven’t…The flash movie at Veer, called Stream of Consciousness is a wonderful small piece on the creative process. Definitely a must see!

A new version of an interesting stock program, Merchant of Venice has been released. Venice is a stock market trading program that supports portfolio management, charting, technical analysis, paper trading and experimental methods like genetic programming. Venice runs on UNIX, including Mac OS X and Windows.

It’s bad for your karma to be mean to a Deadhead.

I’m sure many tech workers will greet The Street.com’s article on IBM’s planned hiring. Let’s hope for more…

Found the permalink problem and I think it’s corrected. Comments should work now.

I’m still trying to get everything working here. Sorry, but the comments will be operational soon.

Being the first post, I should introduce myself. My name is Steve Squier and I am a linux user, programmer and aficionado; I hope all of these roles can be represented and discussed here. Two areas I try to follow are the use of linux in small business and its adoption in education. [...]