Main Dish:

- looks like an olive to me
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05423

- been doing a little research on broadband wireless, think I'll post my notes when I get 'em together. Here's a story about Motorola's OFDM getting 300Mbps
http://www.commsdesign.com/news/tech_beat/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=26100052

- with the major broadcast networks putting up sub-3 shares for their Democratic convention converage, I don't think the NYTimes is in any position to criticize bloggers, or as they prefer to call us "Web diarists", for their convention converage. All of the coverage I have read about the Democratic convention has been from blogs, not from TV and certainly not from the NYTimes.
http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/07/26/demeaning_bloggers_the_nytimes_is_running_scared.php

- I didn't even know that Gateway had a new CEO... just goes to show how far that company has fallen.
http://news.com.com/Putting+the+sparkle+back+into+Gateway/2008-1040_3-5285609.html?tag=nefd.lede

- one of the first interviews with Marc Benioff post-quiet period.
http://news.com.com/Quiet+no+more/2008-7343_3-5280044.html?tag=nefd.acpro

- Brad has a good piece on financial rules for entrepreneurs. This goes along with something I wrote recently about measuring performance... of which the subtext was simply measure everything.
http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2004/07/financial_fitne.html

- Motorola has really turned things around, Zander seems to be doing a really good job.
http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=922

- Overture has a new search optimizer... I have to admit that I'm not "up" on the whole business of selling ads through search, but it sounds more promising than selling ads through media.
http://battellemedia.com/archives/000753.php

- review of the new HP 6300 GSM/GPRS/Wifi/Bluetooth Smartphone. Thanks Fish.
http://davesipaq.com/articles/000079/iPAQ_h6300_reviews

- this MSDN article takes a look at message patterns in SOA. What is an interesting consequence to ponder in SOA is that messages are asynchronous, which presents somewhat of a dilemma for all the vendors who are SOA'ing their infrastructures faster than you can say "don't pick up the SOAP" because those applications, at least enterprise ones, are largely architected around synchronous messaging.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnmaj/html/aj2mpsoarch.asp

- a better way to negotiate... backward
http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4278&t=strategy

- crikey, take a look at these satellite images of flooding in Bangladesh where 2/3 of the country has become submerged.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996205

- good article about efforts by M$oft to make it easier for non-native English speakers to express themselves on the Internet.
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/07/wo_hadenius072604.asp

- bunch of vendors got together and are offering a package of technology for VoIP in the enterprise over existing Wifi and GSM (didn't get the GSM angle, but then I only read the first couple of paragraphs)
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3386721