Clubic.com has some pictures of Microsoft's new mouse - including one in leather:


BBC says that they will also introduce a tilt functionality to the mouse. This means that the user can now scroll verticaly and horizontaly only with the mouse.
The importance of this feature may be arguable but may be usefull in specific aplications.

There are two interesting web application platforms that I've seen articles about and some buzz. Mason and Zope are diferent meaning that Mason is based on html and Zope is a more mature project based in Python.

An interesting article about Zope can be read here.

I can see some daylight. This means "Sleep Now".

I Go ... Sleep Now ... zzzzz

Adobe completed the tests for their product activation technology.
They will follow Microsoft's way with the Office Suite to ensure that losses due to copied software are minimized. the test were done with Adobe Photoshop 7.

My question is: Is it worth the trouble ?
Everyone gets the software it desires, product activations are cracked mainly in mainstream software applications such as Photoshop and only a few non-professional users can give themselves the luxury of spending a fortune to get one of the world's biggest software gems.

I've been looking at Morphon CSS Editor in the last hour and it looks neat. It's free software, java based and multi-platform.
There's also Morphon XML Editor, also free, but I'm an XML Spy junkie.

Dan Gilmour got a few answers from MS about future blog functionalities in their software.
This is the answer he got

Blog functionality is delivered inside Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003. You can use these capabilities inside FrontPage 2003 to customize and provide blogging functionality to Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003. To contribute to a blog created with FrontPage 2003, all you need is a regular browser. But to make design updates to the blog, you do need FrontPage 2003.

As for SharePoint Portal Server 2003, the blog feature is not available in the product. However, you can use FrontPage 2003 and blog Web Parts will also likely be made available via third parties. Finally, please keep in mind that inside SharePoint Portal Server 2003 discussion threads with dates are delivered right out of the box.