Nice timing that an article on BEEP comes up on Slashdot. Zeinfeld gives reasons why BEEP is not readily adopted. He says he is one of the original HTTP designers - who is he in real life?

I'm now downloading the just-released Project Liberty specification. There could be some commercial potential here. On a cultural note, the word liberty sounds so US-ian to me. Is it because Filipino English does not use it much?

I failed to start the overnight download for the JXTA source since my dialup's upstream links went bad. So much for fat (by local standards) DS3's if they bog down.

Something to think about: columnist Michael Tan on the myth of Asian modesty.