Author: Vince Kimball

Iranian Lawyer Is Awarded Peace Prize for Human Rights Work. Shirin Ebadi became the first Muslim woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize today for her work in promoting the rights of women and children in Iran over the past three decades. By Lizette Alvarez. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

First Impression. “There's a difference between being busy and being productive.” –Kristen Lippincott , Curator, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England  [Fast Company]

The road to trustworthiness. A friend of mine who is also in the component business recently told me something interesting: They recently renewed their liability insurance. The application questionnaire specifically asked if they were using Microsoft technologies for their website. It looks like Linux and Solaris users get a better insurance rate. Ouch!  [Live @ Sax.net]

Weekly Law Blog Roundup. If you care about Law and Knowledge Management (“KM”) then you'll be happy to learn that Chris Smith is blogging again. Chris does KM at a large New York law firm that remains nameless, but obviously not clueless. … [Ernie The Attorney]

Dylan Greene: How Microsoft could stop spyware and adware with Longhorn. Interesting stuff. Let's talk again at/after the PDC.  [The Scobleizer Weblog]

Coming soon: Web design on a shoestring. Carrie's Web Design on a Shoestring is coming to a bookstore near you. The little white book is for web folks with big ideas and small budgets. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report]

InfoWorld: Microsoft's Office 'system' attacks collaboration from all sides. Jon Udell. Administrators will have to install and manage three or four sets of clients and servers. The new capabilities are exciting, but it'll take lots more integration to make Office-based collaboration a seamless and manageable experience. [Tomalak's Realm]

Twisting by the PHPool. These figures suggest that a PHP networking app (Nanoweb) running on brand-new 2003 hardware (3 Ghz PC) will be faster than a program written in C (Apache) on good year 2000 hardware (1Ghz PC). Now if someone had told me in 2000 that in 3 years I would be able to… Continue reading Twisting by the PHPool

New: Smart Folders 1.0. Smart Folders is a utility that can collect similar files in a central location and update itself when new files are created. [MacInTouch]

How Skype does it. How does Skype get through Firewalls and NAT Routers?. SuperNodes [The Register] Interesting.  You find out there is a call for you and make an outbound TCP call to the SuperNode to meet it.  That's neat thinking 😉 Also as an aside when I installed Skype a couple of weeks ago… Continue reading How Skype does it