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More than a cleanser, more than a Greek king, even (only slightly) more than a football team.

Think they'll make a Beta out of it?

In an ongoing merger of online and print media and opinion, a number of newspapers have subscribed to the new BlogBurst service. BlogBurst aggregates over 600 weblogs on topics from technology through travel.

Details about the zero-day hole sat on company portal for hours.

...locations throughout much of the U.S. Fleet managers, security managers and the cartographically challenged get a new whereabouts weapon this week, when Skyhook Wireless Inc. in Boston releases a beta version of its Loki mapping service for mobile users.

Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association thinks Linux is, "too fat" so, he's moving forward with Windows CE for OLPC computers.

AT&T gave your data to Feds. Where are the privacy advocates when you need them?

News for Monday, April 10 2006

In an effort to boost the level of data security on portable computers, cell phones and other gadgets, IBM is unveiling a method for injecting encryption capabilities into the heart of the machines' circuitry.

For the last two weeks, the Linux army has seized on Tuttle, Oklahoma city manager Jerry Taylor as a symbol of all that's wrong with the world.

Many people know what podcasts are, but few use them. What will it take to make them ubiquitous?

A new virus that infects both Linux and Windows may be on the loose soon after developers release sample code.

Bake four and twenty coders into a pie...

0-9-0 release now available for those who are unmanaged.

Red Hat has agreed to pay USD350 million for open source application server JBoss.

The registry for the .eu top level domain received 390,000 applications in the first 100 minutes of availability.

Not computer viruses, but real viruses. The lithium ion batteries "built" by the viruses are three times as powerful as others for their weight and size.

Art and software development. What an interesting combination...

News for Friday, April 7 2006

Apple and Microsoft playing nice. I feel like I am in the land Oz.

If you use the Internet Explorer browser, and in fact, even if you just use Microsoft Windows, your favorite websites, business applications, and toolbars could stop working beginning April 11th when a non-security update is installed.

"Have you ever, you know, coded with a lady?"

Ah, they grow up so fast, then move out on their own.

"What does this button do?"