A very interesting piece — the formatted memory cards you sell or otherwise discard can contain recoverable media, and the authors of this story went and recovered some of it…

For extra credit.

Reminds me of something I heard at a Sun event, “Why go to work at a Linux firm to work on problems that Sun solved in the 80’s when you can come to Sun and work on problems that IBM solved in the 60’s?” Anyhow, this is an excellent virtualization primer.

“An open source wireless tracking system for following people around buildings got its first public use last week at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.” Seems a bit creepy to me, but I suppose it could be handy in a trade show-type scenario.

An article by Bill Gates about robots — this link is to page four, where it gets a bit interesting. Microsoft has built a programming toolkit for writing the sort of software that drives robots. Sounds good, but what’re the licensing terms?

“…our goal is to create a vibrant third party software ecosystem around Linux–you know, like the one Microsoft has built around Windows.” Sounds good. I’ve signed up for the linux packaging standardization mailing list…