the cost of IMF policies

How IMF aid affects brazil's future, from today's New York Times. Nothing new here, this has been going on for years but only now (post-bubble) it has been clearly identified as a problem: IMF policies and large dependence on external investment, in developing countries, mean high instability and loss of control over their economies.

Time to start rolling back a bit?

ozzie on cross-platform development

Dave comments on Ray Ozzie's post about cross platform development with Notes, Groove, and other products.

ad hoc world

Robert Cringely writes on the coming world of WiFi, UWB and ad hoc networking (called Mesh networking by him). This is definitely where things are going, particularly for small "edge" networks (i.e., home, small business) that can't depend on a single server.