WildFire42 writes "The W3C has released their W3C WCAG 2.0 Standards (that's World Wide Web Consortium Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) for a request for comments before it becomes a standard. I've discovered quite a variety of geeks here that may access web content in a variety of methods, from screen readers, to Braille displays, to open captioning on streamed videos, etc. Web accessibility is still in its infancy (relatively), but is becoming a concern for more people every day. Once the WCAG 2.0 becomes a recognized standard (probably sometime in 2004), it will most likely be a concern for web developers, but the W3C still wants input from the public, to get a feel of the kinds of disabilities that have not received enough focus in the 1.0 standards. More information on the Interest Group is at the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative page. Your input and insight is needed!"

David Leppik writes "The author of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program, has an article about how it was designed. VisiCalc is why businesses started to take the Apple ][ (and personal computers in general) seriously. It also changed accounting forecasts forever, which triggered the investment boom that brought us the "greed is good" era. Oh, and you can still download VisiCalc in case you run DOS or Windows and have 27,520 bytes to spare."

An Anonymous Coward writes: "One of the GNU/Hurd developers, Neal Walfield, was recently interviewed by KernelTrap. Nice read."

unicron writes: "PHPBuilder has got an article MySQL and PostgreSQL Compared. " Everyone who has used these DBs knows the differences between them, and now that licensing isn't one of them, let's try to talk about where each excels and the other fails. I know people get almost as religious about their DBs as they do about OSs and programming languages, but let's try to get somewhere here and not just needlessly flame and rant, mmkay?