52 Leadership Tips- #19.  Don’t Lead via Urgency. Have you ever looked around and noticed that your team was getting nothing done? Or, how about yourself? You know, those very unproductive days, weeks or even months. This can be a natural byproduct of paying too much attention to the urgent, or, leading via urgency! Don’t [...]

Powerful Quake Jolts the Seabed Near Indonesia. An underwater earthquake struck again off the west coast of Indonesia, sending a ripple of panic across a still traumatized region. By SOMINI SENGUPTA. [NYT > Home Page]

Announcing “Between Lawyers” – An Excellent New Adventure in Blawgland. Let me join Denise Howell, Tom Mighell, Marty Schwimmer and Ernest Svenson in announcing our new joint blogging adventure called “Between Lawyers.” Thanks to visionary genius and generosity of Hylton Jolliffe at Corante, we have started a group blog that will join the family of [...]

The Wrong Standard. Barron's (reg req): The Most Respected CEOs. (Warren) Buffett is the ultimate example of a CEO who counts — Berkshire Hathaway wouldn't exist without him. Some worrywarts at Barron's were concerned about putting him on the list because of the ongoing investigation into a potentially dubious reinsurance contract that Berkshire's General Re [...]

TSA Lied About Protecting Passenger Data. According to the AP: The Transportation Security Administration misled the public about its role in obtaining personal information about 12 million airline passengers to test a new computerized system that screens for terrorists, according to a government investigation. The report, released Friday by Homeland Security Department Acting Inspector General [...]

Return of the good Doctor gives BBC a timely 10m-viewer tonic. THE long-awaited return of Doctor Who pulled in more than 10 million viewers, figures revealed yesterday, bringing a much-needed boost to the BBC's Saturday night television schedules. [The Scotsman]

A church switches to open source and teaches us a lesson. The Fellowship Church, the fifth-largest church in the USA, recently switched its Web sites from Microsoft technology to Linux, PHP, PostgreSQL, and Apache. Brian Bailey just laid out the reasons on his blog. Why am I linking to something negative to Microsoft? Well, for [...]

Messaging Hygiene at Microsoft. “Detailed discussion on how Microsoft IT manages the large quantities of unwanted e-mail (a.k.a. spam) and malware-infected messages in its inbound Internet e-mail traffic. The paper documents how Microsoft IT uses Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 technologies, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003,… [MS Exchange Blog]

139 WordPress Themes (so far). Awesome, awesome, awesome! The WordPress 1.5 Theme Competition received 139 entries (and may get one or two more). Check out the details in the theme competition blog. [alexking.org: Blog]

The Fax Machine: Technology That Refuses to Die. The fax persists as a mockery of the much-predicted paperless society. By ROBERT JOHNSON. [NYT > Technology]