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Mark Antony and Gaius Trebonius are in charge of the lines facing out, and although it was impossible to see and casualties were high, they did a good job of reinforcing our lines where necessary and weathering the assault. For the Gauls were effective at longer range: their javelins would often hit home and knock our soldiers off the rampart. But when they tried to get closer, many fell into the traps, and others succumbed to our heavy siege-spears when they got in range of the towers. They were bogged down by casualties. When the sun rose they saw they hadn’t breached our defenses anywhere, and they turned back. At this point Vercingetorix’s men weren’t even ready to attack – they had taken too long with implements they were clearly unaccustomed to. Seeing the relieving force had failed and unwilling to attempt an attack on one front, they turned back into the town.

• Norman Walsh, from whence come many good SGML and XML-type things, now has a weblog. And a .name domain. Includes great quotes in almost every entry.

• On Winterspeak, Zimran “Chicago school economics” Ahmed addresses some of the issues I ranted about in my little spiel on why I hate economics. I don’t think he reads my weblog, but it is rather serndipitous that he put his post up shortly after I did mine.

• The brou-ha-ha over SCO taking IBM to court for “stealing” their intellectual property and then threatening to sue Linus Torvalds ended humoursly — Novell put them in their place by pointing out that they don’t even own what they were suing over. The icing on the cake: Bruce Perens published information pointing to evidence in SCO’s own financial statements that SCO just collects the royalties for Novell.

• More evidence of foreign governments moving away from Microsoft dependence.

• I really need to add some sort of Wiki formatting into weblogger.el

• Bill Gates on spam: Please pass laws mandating ADV: headers. Gee. Why didn’t I think of that?