Early Sierra games playable online

Some interesting stuff that surfaced between yesterday and today:

• Old Sierra Games Playable In Browser Through Open Source Game Engine - a great piece of work at Sarien.net.
• Microsoft Suffers Leaks, Lagging Sales Numbers As They Look Forward To Windows 8 - article about the leak of Windows 7 Release Candidate, and the fact that Microsoft are already beginning to plan Windows 8.
• My thesis is going through a public evaluation beta this week - check out the chatbot evaluation page.
  

Oracle buys Sun; Geocities to die soon; Ubuntu 9.04 released

A lot of stuff has happened this week, and keeping up to date with Slashdot is a good idea. Some highlights:

• On Monday 20th April, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems
• On Thursday 23rd April, MySQL split into two separate forks
  
• On Thursday 23rd April, Ubuntu 9.04 was released
• On Thursday 23rd April, Yahoo! announced the end of Geocities