Word
Microsoft loves their word processor. For years MS has been telling people who are trying to come up with a generic document format to go jump in a lake. Word for years has been deliberately incompatible with the formats that have come out. Why should MS change things while they are on top? Well, HTML, the language of the Internet, is part of this larger generic document language standard. XML, the data language is also a subset of the same standard. These and many other forms of communication came about despite Microsoft's efforts. Much of the innovation that we call the Internet came to be in the face of lawsuits and software patents that attempted to sop it? If MS had it's way, we would still be faxing word documents back and forth. MS seems to fight every new thing that comes along. They buy companies that do something new and act like they invented it first. I really want to see Microsoft fall. The trouble is, it will be by a foreign entity. There is no U. S. company that can stand up to them on their own turf.

Falluja
The New York Times has a great article on the fighting in Falluja. The best feature is the list of pictures. They have slide shows (on the right hand side) of both fighting sides. Some of the rhetoric between the soldiers is interesting as well. All those scary things you've seen in SciFi movies about soldiers having an unfair advantage with night vision and the ability to sand off for kilometers and destroy the enemy without them knowing are coming true.