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But if Congress doesn’t settle the differences between the House and Senate versions soon, it’s gonna be tax-a-palooza time.

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If you wondered what would happen to BEA stock when it went up past Oracle Corp’s bid price after Oracle refused to budge–well, it fell back down again. And with no buyers in sight, BEA might just be SOL.

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A sudden drop in Google Page Ranks for many popular sites has people thinking the Page (as in Larry Page) Rank algorithm has been jiggered again–and this time, it favors blogs less. So, maybe that explains why my ego hurts so much.


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Sun’s dev tool for Java is now available under GPL, trying to get Linux mindshare. But will anyone really care? I’m thinking…no. Also released under CDDL, NetBeans lags way behind Eclipse in most developers’ give-a-hoot metric.

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Got laid off ? eWEEK has this feature on how to dig yourself out of the rubble from an unexpected job loss and get yourself back into the tech workforce.

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Here are 10 specialized search engines you’ve probably never heard of, but should check out. That is, if you want to find the lyrics to that song that is stuck in your head, or online classifieds for that hard-to-find item, or that file download you’ve been looking for.

Wayne Rash of eWEEK has unleashed the latest Roomba in eWEEK’s Washington, DC Lab. I suppose you could say that it sucked. But since that’s what the Roomba is supposed to do…

Chris Primesburger looks at the state of Wall Street disaster recovery 6 years after 9/11/01, and it isn’t there yet. The story covers some of the ground Ed Cone and I looked at in our first story for Baseline, on how Cantor Fitzgerald recovered from the loss of its primary site at the World Trade Center in 47 hours to begin handling trades again.

The buzzmeister has returned, and this site will be experiencing some upheaval over the next few days as I thrash it back into shape.

It seems every time Adobe updates something, it hoses my Mac. The other day, after installing the Flash Player 9 update, Flash ceased to work in any browser. I did uninstalls, re-installs, and all for naught.

Then I remembered what happened after the *last* major Flash update. I loaded up Mac OS X’s disk utility, and sure enough–the disk had become corrupted.

I’m not saying it’s Adobe’s (or the former Macromedia’s) fault that every time I get a Flash update, my hard drive needs to be repaired. I’m just saying it’s a hell of a coincidence.