Wednesday, January 23, 2008 

Good Tips

Joel Spolsky's Guides at Inc. dot com
20 Foods to Snack on from LifeHack.org via LifeHacker
Staying Productive & Sane While Working Form Home via Digg
and this great Guide by Marc Adreessen

Thursday, January 10, 2008 

Schneier says Steal This Wi-Fi

From Wired, Commentary, Security Matters today Bruce Schneier says "Whenever I talk or write about my own security setup, the one thing that surprises people -- and attracts the most criticism -- is the fact that I run an open wireless network at home. There's no password. There's no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the internet.

To me, it's basic politeness. Providing internet access to guests is kind of like providing heat and electricity, or a hot cup of tea. But to some observers, it's both wrong and dangerous."

It's a well thought out and researched essay about why providing some bandwidth for open wireless isn't such a horrible thing.

Wednesday, January 09, 2008 

Why America needs Obama

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in the Boston Globe:

"For years, candidates have appealed to voters by arguing how they can win or why any Democrat would be better than any Republican. They miss the fact that voters are more interested in why Democrats should win than how we will. They mistakenly believe that discontent with Republicans will assure a Democratic victory, when in truth most of us aren't buying 100 percent of what either party is selling. So, election after election, we end up with the same old debate and commentary about competing electoral tactics rather than a vision for the future.

We have a chance this time to choose a different kind of candidate, a different kind of president."

I couldn't have said it any better.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008 

Yahoo to test OpenID?

Yahoo appears close to implementing OpenID, a Web authentication standard that relieves people of the need to remember multiple passwords to log into different Web sites. Yahoo controls a domain me.yahoo.com, which shows a short message indicating the company will act as an identity provider for OpenID.

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