Happiness Is the Best Medicine. Happiness and health are often linked, but are people healthy because they're happy or happy because they're healthy? Several new studies shed light on the connections between biological processes and the psyche. By Rowan Hooper. [Wired News]
Month: April 2005
Anticipation builds as cardinals gather
Anticipation builds as cardinals gather. VATICAN CITY — On the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, where the next pope will be introduced to the world, a red curtain now hangs open, as if waiting for a cardinal to arrive and pronounce the news in Latin: ''Habemus Papam.” [Boston Globe — Front Page]
Recovering the Lost Art of Note-Taking
Recovering the Lost Art of Note-Taking. I spend most of my work-life in meetings. Note-taking is a survival skill. Yet, I am surprised at how few people bother to take notes in meetings. Those who do sometimes express frustration at how ineffective the exercise seems to be. In this post, I’d like to expound on… Continue reading Recovering the Lost Art of Note-Taking
State-Sponsored Identity Theft
State-Sponsored Identity Theft. In an Ohio sting operation at a strip bar, a 22-year-old student intern with the United States Marshals Service was given a fake identity so she could work undercover at the club. But instead of giving her a fabricated identity, the police gave her the identity of another woman living in another… Continue reading State-Sponsored Identity Theft
LucidLink Offers Free Small Office Security Package
LucidLink Offers Free Small Office Security Package. It's pretty extraordinary when there's competition for giving away security: On the small-office/home-office (SOHO) end of the market for Wi-Fi security products, there's an increasing trend to just give away products that can help very small number of users in the hopes that those users then adopt the… Continue reading LucidLink Offers Free Small Office Security Package
Adobe + Macromedia + Longhorn
Adobe + Macromedia + Longhorn. Adobe applications are built with a proprietary platform-independent application framework to support both Windows and Macintosh. I've used it in the past to write plugins for various Adobe products and found them very cumbersome to use. The situation at Macromedia is about the same since they also have to support… Continue reading Adobe + Macromedia + Longhorn
Adobe to Acquire Macromedia in $3.4 Billion Stock Deal
Adobe to Acquire Macromedia in $3.4 Billion Stock Deal. Adobe, which makes the popular Acrobat and Photoshop programs, said today it had agreed to acquire the multimedia software firm Macromedia. By TERENCE NEILAN. [NYT > Technology]
Traditional conclave has modern twists
Traditional conclave has modern twists. VATICAN CITY — Cardinal William H. O'Connell of Boston had made it across the Atlantic and was on his way from Naples to Rome when he got the news: The papal conclave of 1914 had begun and ended, and O'Connell was too late to vote. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
online-bookmarks 0.6.0 (Default branch)
online-bookmarks 0.6.0 (Default branch). online-bookmarks is a bookmarks management system to store bookmarks, favorites, and links on the WWW where they actually belong. It is meant for people who work often with different computers and browsers. It supports multiple users, multiple languages, and has a folder structure of arbitrary depth. Importing and exporting bookmarks from… Continue reading online-bookmarks 0.6.0 (Default branch)
An Update on Stuff That's Cool (Like Google's Photo Maps)
An Update on Stuff That's Cool (Like Google's Photo Maps). A “where are they now?” report on Skype telephone calls, Google Maps and access to National Weather Service data. By JAMES FALLOWS. [NYT > Technology]