All my energy went to following up various things during the day, and I do believe coping with a touch of some flu or other. At the same time, another report says that genetically-modified salmon, which can grow up to 10 times faster than normal, could be cleared for human consumption within a year. Astronomers are analysing data and images of last weekend's intensive auroral display and geomagnetic storm, said to be the best for over a decade. Once again MS focuses on proprietary technologies which are certain to fragment the Web community. By 'innovating' ahead of the W3C in areas like Cascading Style Sheets behaviors while leaving large chunks of standardized processing and styling unsupported, Microsoft risks creating even more complicated browser incompatibilities than already exist.
Big companies are always schizophrenic, with insular and competing groups doing conflicting things.
Really big ones are really schizophrenic. Nothing new there. I've seen this kind of thing in other contexts. IBM, various national telcos. This comes across as more consciously sinister and premeditated than I think it is.