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iTunes is loss-leader for Apple.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/07/your_99c_belong/

Article on Web Mogul Barry Diller, owner of Expedia, Hotel.com and Match.com.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_41/b3853001_mz001.htm

"Google dance" celebrates conflict between search engine optimisers and Google's search algorithm (yes, the Google dance itself is old hat, no longer a monthly thing).
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/76/dispatch.html

"Woo hoo" says world of internet billionaire
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_000504_billionaire_feature.html

Dotcom comes around.
http://www.thisismoney.com/20031110/nm70310_s.html

Red Hat are sprinting away from free Red Hat Linux towards subscription based Red Hat Enterprise
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/migration/rhl/rhn/
End of support date is April 2004.

Slashdot have started their discussion
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/11/03/1749259.shtml?tid=106&tid=110&tid=126&tid=163&tid=185&tid=187

An album of love songs penned by Silvio Berlusconi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3226785.stm

UK speed cameras increase insurance cost for offenders, up profits for insurers?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20031027/1223242_F.shtml

DTI has my hols planned out for some time to come.
http://www.dti.gov.uk/er/bankhol.htm

Home-grown URL double-entendre?
http://www.atitproductions.com/

Buick's LaCrosse misinterpreted in Canada
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3208501.stm

Microsoft OLE guru turns spiritual and runs away from worldly gain.
http://www.anandasangha.net/mysticmicrosoft/

Google gets into trouble over selling trademarked phrases in France.
Straightforward coverage:
[deadlink]
Webmasterworld discussion:
accessible via Google search

Philip Greenspun's blog description of Java as the "SUV of programming tools" causes slashdot effect as slashdotters go into "comparison mode" that downs the blog's server as this brief message notes.

AMD launches 64-bit desktop processor, many reviews, as noted by the Inquirer. Tom's Hardware has a review, AnandTech has six articles on the development.

From Hobbiton to Mordor
http://www.ooblick.com/text/tomordor/

"I hear there's a 15.5-second guy from Japan, and he's freaking everybody out,"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/08/DD251010.DTL

Bot burbles
http://www.jibble.org/montyquotes.php

Must not walk, it's far too dangerous (see graph near end).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3095363.stm
Does this include data on how dangerous not walking is to couch potatoes/web surfers - are you sitting comfortably?

Are you feeling sleepy?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3127299.stm

I have replaced all existing advertising links with Google AdSense skyscrapers across the site.

I am interested in:
How appropriate the adverts generated are for my pages - I'm interested in whether the technology works.
Whether they generate more cash than the previous ads, i.e. do they live up to the hype?
Would they be useful for my work and for sites owned by friends and run on a more commercial basis?

I may switch back if it doesn't work well enough. I think it also gives an insight into what Google's analysis thinks my pages are about and if the adverts aren't appropriate, maybe the page covers too many subjects?

I have added adverts using Google's AdSense to the site, in areas where there is no specific advertiser, partly to see how appropriate the adverts generated by the technology was.  The adverts are at the bottom of the pages, and should be seen by relatively few visitors.  The site may move to "skyscrapers", but (technical point here) this may entail putting the top section of each page into a table (not that the software used doesn't put the whole page in a table anyway).

Philip Greenspun's blog. Hyperlinks not underlined - tut, tut tut.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/

Physical computer shopkeeper vents
http://www.actsofgord.com/

Gateway support operative photographs those returned computers others merely describe.
http://sct.staghosting.com/

Identikit virus press release (NTK lists it as Warholesque)
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.53.html#subj7

Write time?
http://www.yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html

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