Spring Forward, 2001

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 31 Mar 2001 13:00:00 GMT
Remember to move your clocks forward an hour tonite. One less hour of sleep tonite, one more hour of light tomorrow night.

Declan McCullagh at Wired - Secret Service Raids Gold-Age - A bunch of goons invaded the business of a guy in Syracuse (NY) who trades cash for e-gold. They stole his computers. Maggots. grabbe labeled this story, "Organized Crime Raids Gold-Age". Apt. [wired]

Gold-Age owner Parker Bradley says that during his eight-hour interrogation on March 12, the Secret Service seemed less interested in credit card fraud and more interested in the mechanics of e-gold. Until last year, Bradley accepted credit cards and paid out e-gold, but said he quit because too many people used stolen credit cards when conducting business with him.

"The interrogation became less about me and more about politics and e-gold," Bradley said. "They were trying to get me to blame e-gold for fraud. Just to be blunt, these guys have no clue about how e-commerce works, how e-gold works or what I was doing."

Peter Cohen at MacCentral - Opera 5.0 tech preview 2 released - If you've got a Mac, give Opera a try. I've been using it on Windows for quite a while, and I love it. The .bin is available here. I tried it on my Mac. It works well. This preview release is time limited. You'll have to pay for it with dollars or ad views when it becomes final. ["surf"]

BlueBox looks interesting. It uses the "word model" of programming, something the authors claim is better than the object-oriented model. ["k5"]

I tried Jabbernaut on my PowerMac. Very nice Jabber client. Wish I could run it on my Windoze machine.

Mac OS X GM Release Notes: Java - It's JDK 1.3 with a native Aqua Swing user interface. Gotta get that Titanium PowerBook soon. [wes]

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