Identity Theft Is Epidemic. Can It Be Stopped?. Identity theft, thanks mainly to the growth of the Internet, is epidemic. Can it be stopped? By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN. [The New York Times > Technology]

2 + 2 = ?. It’s become fairly common to state that one of the problems with the professional news media is how they cover things: they report what both sides say but (often) skip reporting the truth. One candidate says, “Two plus two equals four, but just barely. I used to think it equaled [...]

Joel says Microsoft paying too many “strategy taxes”. Mary Jo Foley interviews Joel Spolsky. He talks at length about what he doesn't like in Microsoft's current strategy. Interesting reading. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

Mark gives advice for getting his attention. Mark Cuban, the Dallas Maverick's CEO, chimes in with another great rant: getting my attention. I totally agree with him. I'd go further. I wouldn't hire anyone who can't be found in Google or MSN or Yahoo (or, better yet, all three). If you don't care enough to [...]

BlueDragon 6.2 Beta Released!. More great news from the folks at New Atlanta: the BlueDragon 6.2 Beta is now available! The big new feature in this version is the .NET integration, which means CFML pages can be natively processed by .NET. You've heard me say this before, but I think this is pretty important. Yes, [...]

After Terror, a Secret Rewriting of Military Law. The story of how Guantánamo and the new military justice system became an intractable legacy of Sept. 11 has been largely hidden from public view. By TIM GOLDEN. [The New York Times > Home Page]

Afternoon chat with John Zagula of Marketing Playbook. John Zagula, partner with Ignition partners, and co-author of the excellent Marketing Playbook, just spent a few minutes on the phone with me — we were picking up on the conversation we started the other evening. I was typing in the browser window and accidentally closed. Gone. [...]

PopTech! – A great tech conference. I'm missing PopTech, one of the great technology conferences. It's going on right now in Camden, Maine and many of my best friends are there hearing stimulating speakers and have their minds expanded. One friend of mine who always does… [Ernie The Attorney]

How to Securely Connect MS Access to a Remote SQL Server. Today I had an interesting conversation with a contract programmer that had me thinking a bit. I have used an interesting technique for a while now that most people don't know that makes data manipulate on a SQL server quite nice… and secure. For [...]

Sprint Tests Fixed Wireless Device. Sprint is testing a fixed wireless device that will let customers to use the PCS wireless network to replace land-lines from their local telco. The plain-looking box Phonecell SX5T essentially serves as another mobile phone on your plan, but drops a regular dial tone to devices plugged into it, so [...]