Happy Memorial Day!

To me, the concept of uprooting HTML rendering capability from the operating system is bullshit. Saying that Microsoft should have to do this is like saying they should have to separate file system browsing, or printing, or even display rendering from the operating system — sure, it’s theoretically possible, but it’s complete crap. If Microsoft has chosen HTML as the format for their help and other support files, they shouldn’t have to rely on someone else to build the renderer.

You would figure that someone aspiring to be President of the United States would jump at the chance to be briefed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff on military issues… but you’d be wrong. Yet another entry on the list of why Dubya is an ass.

The first .GOD zone file is available; I wonder how they plan to integrate this into the mainstream DNS system (if at all). (After a little more reading, though, I see that .GOD is primarily meant to be an affront to ICANN — an unrecognized TLD that is being used to try to expose ICANN as a political body with little logic or reason to its policies and decisions.)

Good try: a group of people tried to buy $50 million worth of Russian arms and various military uniforms for the nation of “Sealand,” in reality an aircraft platform 11 miles off the coast of Spain. A British businessman is claiming independence for the hunk of concrete.

Last night’s pitching duel between Boston’s Pedro Martinez and the Yankees’ Roger Clemens may well have been the best game I’ve ever seen. The two came to play — through the end of the eighth inning, Pedro had eight strikeouts, and Clemens had 13. Every pitch had me on the edge of my seat. But with two out in the top of the ninth, Clemens threw a high fastball to Trot Nixon and he hit it out of the park, scoring two runs. The Yanks managed to then load the bases in the bottom of the ninth, but Pedro got out of it, and the Sox won 2-0. Amazing game.

And in other New York sports news, Latrell Sprewell has an fractured metatarsal in his left foot, and will probably have to sit out of game four. The Knicks are hurting badly…