Author: Vince Kimball

Managers misuse tech to control workers, study says. Managers with outdated notions about controlling workers are misusing technology to monitor and micromanage employees, according to a new report. [InfoWorld: Top News] [Privacy Digest: Privacy News (Civil Rights, Encryption, Free Speech, Cryptography)]

Delving into mind over matter. David Hamilton left a well-paying job to prove scientifically the healing power of the brain, writes CLAIRE SMITH [The Scotsman]

Red Hat, Novell To Package Xen. Xen, an open-source project with growing ties to Red Hat, Novell and Hewlett-Packard, is emerging as the leading contender for providing open-source virtualization for the Linux environment. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

Black Box Parsing.  NetNewsWire doesn’t know anything about RSS or Atom. Heck, it doesn’t know XML from Shinola. Which is an absurd claim—it wouldn’t be much of an aggregator if it were true. But—here’s the deal—to me as the developer, it is true. I’ll explain… But first: the below is of interest mostly to beginning… Continue reading Black Box Parsing

Big Dig engineers find new wall flaw. Big Dig engineers found a serious flaw this week in a section of Interstate 93 tunnel wall that is similar to the defective wall where a gushing leak erupted Sept. 15, Turnpike Authority officials announced yesterday. [Boston Globe — Front Page]

Our ReplayTV Home Is Somewhat Similar. A Life Where TiVo Has Always Existed “…My daughter was only 3 months old when it arrived and we set it up. As far as my daughter knows, TiVo has always been around. Now that she (and our TiVo) are three years old, and there are some very interesting… Continue reading Our ReplayTV Home Is Somewhat Similar

Update: DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.9. DEVONtechnologies' personal knowledge base and content management application adds an overhauled interface, extended text editing functions, automatic wiki-style links, and many other changes. [MacInTouch]

Mitigating the Exposure Window of Sasser with Host IPS. One of the things that drives me on a daily basis to build and refine our Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) for the Windows platform is that the Exposure Window of a vulnerability continues to grow. New unknown threats to critical business resources continue to expose… Continue reading Mitigating the Exposure Window of Sasser with Host IPS

An Impressive Car Theft. The armored Mercedes belonging to the CEO of DaimlerChrysler has been stolen: The black company car, which is worth about 800,000 euros ($1 million), disappeared on the night of Oct. 26, police spokesman Klaus-Peter Arand said in a telephone interview. The limousine, which sports a 12-cylinder engine and is equipped with… Continue reading An Impressive Car Theft

Tinderbox Weekend Boston. The next Tinderbox Weekend will be in Boston, February 12-13, 2005. You can save by registering early. Elin Sjursen will be back with her broad introduction to Tinderbox — the lecture that elicited oohs and ahs from experienced Tinderbloggers in San Francisco. I'll demonstrate HTML export — building an elaborate, full-featured CSS… Continue reading Tinderbox Weekend Boston