Will there ever be real peace in the Mideast? - CNN are running a poll today asking this question.  The current results show that 85% of 80,000 people who've voted so far think 'NO'

5:50:08 PM  

Apache 2.0 Beats IIS at Its Own Game "eWEEK Labs compared the performance of Apache 2.0 and Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Information Services 5.0, both running on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Apache kept pace with IIS during the entire test, which means that sites that move from IIS to Apache 2.0 on Windows won't have to worry about taking a performance hit" ... and ... "When it comes to security, IIS doesn't come close to Apache"

5:33:50 PM  

Our Waikato River not safe for swimming - this might not seem a big deal to overseas readers (of which there are millions :-) but in New Zealand we've always, naively?, considered our country to be largely pollution free, clean and green. Our Regional council are inverstigating the source of the pollution but in the mean time the regional medical officer of health has warned users off the river because it is too polluted.  Oh well, thats the end of the raft-races I guess.

5:15:21 PM  

The SOAP::Lite module has a security bug which has been well documented on the various security related lists this week. The author has released a patch but the vulnerability is mainly to do with use of the "on_action" handler which I havent used in my SOAP scripts (I'm using static calls to specific/known package names), so I guess we'll leave the patch till we actually have a production SOAP service ready to go-live.

10:27:59 AM  

Extending NewsML is the topic of a post to the Perl-XML list today where the author asks how to add elements to the news-feed without invalidating it against the DTD for NewsML. A coulpe of replies mention how the DTD could be altered but of course that creates a "different" DTD

10:21:51 AM  

Yet another definition of .NET from Microsoft in the latest editors note on Technet titled "Figuring Out .Net for IT". The author (Steven Levy) admits "I'll be honest; it took me awhile to figure out .NET" but the article is a reasonable overview and includes plenty of links to other marketing and technical info on the products.

10:12:43 AM