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Before I ever started using weblogging tools I edited HTML by hand in weblog style. Thanks to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, I just went back to my UCLA site and gathered entries as old as October 2000. I tried to keep everything as it was, but took out broken images and patched up some code to make it XHTML compliant….

Macworld takes a look at the new features included in Office 2004 for Mac….

Luke Timmerman of the Seattle Times wrote about one of Paul Allen’s new ventures last month. Project Halo will attempt to program a computer in the next 30 months to create a computerized tutor that’s smart enough to pass college-level Advanced Placement tests in chemistry, biology and physics. Teams from the University of Texas at Austin, Boeing Phantom Works, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Kraka, Carnegie Mellon University, iSoco, Stanford Medical Informatics, the University of Southern California’s Information Science Institute, KSVentures and Klein Associates will compete to complete the task….

Verizon Wireless now supports call forwarding to in-flight telephones in airplanes using Verizon Airfone service. $0.69 a minute, or $10 a month subscription plus $0.10 a minute….

Family Guy will return to TV for as many as 35 episodes beginning in January 2005 according to an IGN.com interview with creator Seth MacFarlane. E! Online News also has coverage….

According to the Cover Songs Database The Beatles are the most covered band and Eleanor Rigby is the most covered song. The most sampled song is Bob James’ Nautilus….

As of yesterday Tom Bridge stepped down from his role at MacSlash….

Philip Chien of Wired News interviewed Jet Propulsion Laboratory telecom engineer Andrea Barbieri about how Mars rovers communicate back to Earth….

Mark Pilgrim is now an Accessibility Architect in the Emerging Technologies group at IBM. Congratulations Mark!…

Dan Schoenbaum, vice president of strategy for Compuware, writes about ways software teams can work together, and closer to the customer, to create better software. Weblogs are one of the ways software writers can be in direct contact with customers. I could not find Dan’s weblog….