Sweet Fancy Moses: Diana Grove discusses the many uses, and abuses of body hair. " The question of hair removal is as eternal as sex—should I pay for it, and do I tip?"

More on the trend toward [ incorporating weblogs]1 in corporate web sites. Now if I could just put the finishing touches on our Fusionary weblog.

Everyone will be linking to [Ends and Means]1 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.

Feedster, the weblog search engine, only searches RSS feeds. This will be worth watching. Unless of course you don’t have a feed.

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.

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.

Santa is a switcher

Well we finally got our Fusionary weblog out there. Let’s see how well it does its job.

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.

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

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.

I don’t often get to say “Damn! How’d they do that!?,” but check this: Dial a phone number, speak your search phrase, click a link in your browser and see the results. It’s called Google voice search.