Unfortunately, I never could get EarthBrowser 2.0 for Mac OS X (10.3) to work from behind an authenticating proxy. Too bad, because it's got some cooler features than version 1.7 for Windows. The 'set language' dialog box never worked either. Strange. I'm looking forward, however, to the 2.0 version for Windows. Should be good.

Movies watched:
"Galaxy Quest" (with Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver)

HD-DVD format wars beginning

Heliodisplay by IO2 Technology.

Canning the dotcomments garbage - hasn't worked right for awhile. Too hard to maintain. Searching for a better commenting solution.

Feedster is proving to be difficult in implementing also, but the jury is still out on this one. It has promise.

Looking forward to RSS Winterfest on January 21 and 22.

Online children's protection laws are confusing: COPPA, COPA, CIPA, and CPPA.

Was mildly disappointed to find out that Pantone only categorizes a couple of thousand colors. With so many more colors out there, I was just surprised, that's all.

Was slightly dismayed to learn that Exchange 2000 and OWA (Outlook Web Access) isn't necessarily compatible with UTF-8 character encoding (see KB273615 and KB327760 for details). What's up with that?

Was also disappointed to learn that network passwords in Win98 are limited to 14 characters in length. Why such a low limit? XP doesn't have this restriction. A little further reading at Microsoft hints that Active Directory directory service allows for 104 character passwords, whilst NT Security Manager only allowed for 14 characters. So, if I've got a 98 machine on a 2000 network (using AD), why the continued limitation of 14 characters? Is this a backward-compatibility 'feature'?