Marriage eligibility wasn't enforced. For 27 years, the state has specifically instructed city and town clerks not to enforce eligibility requirements for marriage applicants, including a residency requirement that Governor Mitt Romney wants to use to block out-of-state gay couples from marrying in Massachusetts. [Boston Globe -- Front Page]

Nortel Fires 3 Top Executives Amid Accounting Scandal. Nortel Networks under investigation for accounting problems, said today it had fired its three top executives. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]

Companies Finding Some Computer Jobs Best Done in U.S.. Some entrepreneurs are finding that India's vaunted high-technology work force is not always as effective as advertised. By Eduardo Porter. [New York Times: Technology]

IM Should Be One of Top Strategic Technologies for Public Libraries for 2005. IM One of Top Strategic Technologies for 2005 “IM is among the top strategic technologies for 2005 selected by Gartner. Given the popularity of instant messaging, enterprises who want to keep employees happy and more productive will need to set policies for [...]

Prescription for an Innovative Organization.  Dave Pollard has written an excellent and expansive look at what it takes to be an innovative company. He breaks the innovation process down into the following steps: Listen Understand the Problem Get Organized Get Creative Experiment Listen Again Design Implement In the essay, Dave breaks each step into substeps, [...]

Where are we now?. Salon's headline story says it all: “The Bush administration is arguing that it has the right to lock up U.S. citizens forever — without evidence, witnesses, lawyers or trials. If the Supreme Court agrees, will this still be America?“ How did we get this far? (Apparently, Congress no longer needs to [...]

Throwing Stuff Out is Obsolete. From time to time, I tidy up my hard disk. I delete useless old files and excess Tinderbox notes. I weed out the worst snapshots, the redundant images and the blurred pictures and the pictures I accidentally took of someone's feet. This is probably a mistake. It often costs more [...]

ISP in a Trailer. Does your group or organization need access to the internet in a remote location? The NomadISP kiosk can come to the rescue. It's a complete “ISP in a trailer”. It utilizes a 2-way satellite connection, solar panels, four internet ready workstations, and WiFi internet access within 1000 feet of the trailer. A revenue [...]

Understanding IPSec on Windows Server 2003. Microsoft has released a document discussing their implementation of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s Internet Protocol security (IPSec). IPSec provides network managers with a key line of defense in protecting their networks. IPSec exists below the Transport layer, so its security services are transparently inherited by applications. IPSec provides [...]

you know what I think about this….  The more documents are classified by our own government, the less The People have access to the information they need in order to be part of a functioning democracy. No wonder Bush & Co. want to replace the National Archivist with one of their own.  The Information Security [...]