Like Bob Guccione is to Hugh Hefner, CMP is destined to finish second to anyone else in the race. A vague curiosity and a lack of dinner plans led several of us to sneak into the Internet Explorer 3.0 release party last week here in San Francisco, where we were struck by both the quality of the hors d'oeuvres and the absence of interesting conversation. The most entertaining portion of the evening came when the ruler of Redmond decided to surf the crowd in search of some cheese and crackers. Wherever Bill moved, a roiling mass of journalists and hangers-on followed in his wake, like moths to the light. Join the HotWired Network, it's free .
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