Dear reader,

Looking at recent developments in technology, a few news items caught my attention over the last couple of days.

IT has always been an interesting business. But the last 5 to ten years, it has become all about money. How do I mean? Well, companies are looking at the cheapest outsourcing solution available, which is often reversed years later due to rising cost in the countries or regions they outsourced to. The news I believe is interesting is of a slightly different nature: Hackers now outsource their work: It is cheaper to have people in India crack captcha’s than try to hack your way through them (!!). Read the article here. It killed me.

Hans Reiser, founder of the ReiserFS, a filesystem for the Linux operating system has murdered his wife and was found guilty after having confessed. He’s jailed for 15 years. Did he do it because her bits didn’t fit?? Read the news here.

Bloomberg made a small error last week by (accidentally?!) publishing Steve Jobs orbituary - scaring me and a big portion of the planet with me. Lots of discussions all over the internet, but up till now it seems That Steve Jobs is still alive and kicking - let’s hope so. We’ll see the ninth, as Apple is getting ready to hold an event announcing new products. If he’s dead, we’ll no by that date.

Microsoft has released the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 - promising this browser will respect common Web Standards. We don’t know which standards it will respect, but according to testers it looks (relatively) promising. Maybe the big dog from Redmond is really changing certain aspects of doing business?? Let’s all hope so.

Well, that’s about it for me. I hope you’ve enjoyed this post and my remarks (cynical, I know). I’d love to see your opinions in the comments.

Have a great day,

Servaas