From the Easter Vigil: Dear friends in Christ, on this most holy night, when our Lord Jesus Christ passed from death to life, the Church invites her children throughout the world to gather in vigil and prayer. This is the Passover of the Lord: if we honor the memory of his death and resurrection by [...]

ProNet: Feedster blogging policy. It's a great idea to have a written blog policy if your company allows blogs, and especially if your company encourages blogging. Feedster has just posted their corporate blogging policy and it looks like a fairly straightforward set of policies. Many of the issues covered here would be good to use [...]

ProNet: The Ten Commandments of Freelancing. We're lucky to have lots of Professional Network members who are freelancers, and for all of you who are out there fending for yourselves, you'll want to consider The Ten Commandments of Freelancing. Scott Thigpen's put together an outstanding list on his TypePad-powered blog that's worth bookmarking for future [...]

ProNet: Veer on Personality. We love the creative ideas that come from the folks at Veer, not least because of their great Movable Type-powered blog The Skinny, but their latest project is another really great way to get your creative juices flowing. Personality is a new set of evocative portraits created to represent a range [...]

03/25 Foresight Linux 0.7 released [DistroWatch.com: Distributions]

Three reasons I use Skype. If you've called my office before, chances are you've communicated with me when I was using my portable VOIP system. I've been using VOIP Technology to communicate with my staff and clients for close to a decade, but it always meant using costly H.323 endpoints, or unpredictable software. That's all [...]

“Fail to see any harm”? What?!?. Reading the dissent in today's Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on the Schiavo case, I think I found the words to explain what's so offensive to me about the actions of Congress and Schiavo's parents to date. The following quote, from the dissenting judge's reasoning on why a [...]

NewsForge: Why Novell's Internal Migration to Linux Desktops is a Landmark Story.  “There have been so many announcements, so much activity, such a hurried pace to the Brainshare 2005 conference that I think many may have overlooked the big story…”… [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Microsoft Office Visio 2003 Connector for the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA). This looks very cool! “Securing your network has just gotten easier. The Visio Connector for MBSA lets you view the results of a Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer scan in a clear, comprehensive Microsoft Office Visio 2003 network diagram.”  [MS Exchange Blog]

ActiveSync Info. There’s a pretty detailed article on the workings and implementation of ActiveSync over at the Geekzone.  [MS Exchange Blog]