I have a sinking feeling that in a year or two, we’re going to remember early spring of 2003 as the time when Google turned into something very un-Google. Patents, ads on weblogs, what’s next? I’m going to hate watching it happen.

Google buys Pyra, creator of Blogger. Everyone really is getting into the act.

A recent Slashdot article alerted me to an old problem of people dumping escape sequences into an apache log, causing all sorts of Bad Things to happen if someone reads the log file in a terminal. I love reading log files, so this was a concern. I use SecureCRT, which is not supposed to be vulnerable. The cool thing is that in one of the Article’s comments, it was suggested that instead of using #tail -f /logfile to use #less +F /logfile, which opens the file in less, but behaves like tail and removes any escape sequences. Plus, I can move around in the file while I’m watching it.

Well we finally got our Fusionary weblog out

there. Let’s see how well it does its job.

Santa is a switcher

Put me into the minority of folks who enjoyed Soderbergh’s Full Frontal. Sloppy, no real story, no real message. Still, it was fun to watch him try something unusual after the zero-thought Ocean’s Eleven. And Catherine Keener was great, as always.

Serious flaw in MS SQL Server 2000 is causing havoc on the net. I’m still running version 7.

Stories:

Well Dave already linked to most of them.

Feedster, the weblog search

engine, only searches RSS feeds. This will be worth watching. Unless

of course you don’t have a feed.

Everyone will be linking to [Ends

and Means](//www.burtongroup.com/weblogs/jamielewis/stories/2003/03/29/endsAndMeansIdentityInTwoWorlds.html) soon. It complements and extends Searls and Wienberger’s

World of Ends.

Anyone interested in the whole digital identity thing should give it a

read.

More on the trend toward [

incorporating weblogs](//www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/20975.html) in corporate web sites. Now if I could just

put the finishing touches on our Fusionary weblog.