We're live!. Family or friend have a problem? Not really in the mood to drive halfway across town just to show someone how to install Firefox? Wish you had a solution to fix their machine that didn't involve you reconfiguring firewalls, setting up an SSH tunnel, and walking them through a bunch of Windows control… Continue reading We're live!

Science Labs Don't Measure Up. High school students hooked on CSI aren't likely to get much hands-on exposure to sound laboratory techniques in the classroom, according to a survey of school lab facilities. [Wired News]

More Tales From 'Ciscogate'. The tempest surrounding a whistle-blowing security researcher boils over when FBI agents and forbidden hacking slides show up in Sin City. Mike Lynn's lawyer describes the view from the inside. By Jennifer Granick. [Wired News]

3Q's: Dan Cederholm. The new workings of the Web require a new way to think about Web design. SimpleBits Dan Cederholm is a designer and writer who has championed simplified, standards-based design in his books and his work for high-profile sites like Fast Company, Inc.com, ESPN, Blogger, Odeo and others. We asked Dan 3Q's about… Continue reading 3Q's: Dan Cederholm

FC Now: Intensifying Your Initiative: 5 Tips. Without harnessing the power of initiative, the wheel of innovation comes to a screeching halt. We all have a desire to “make a difference” or to make improvements in our lives, but for a variety of reasons, many people face challenges in regard to taking initiative in one… Continue reading FC Now: Intensifying Your Initiative: 5 Tips

Strongspace: Secure file storage by TextDrive. Strongspace is a smashing new Rails-powered service from TextDrive. Their pick-up line goes as follows: Strongspace is a secure place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file with your co-workers, friends and family. You can upload, download and manage your files over SFTP (Secure FTP) or… Continue reading Strongspace: Secure file storage by TextDrive

BartPE. Today's column by Fred Langa is the second recent reference I've seen to BartPE: Bart's PE Builder helps you build a “BartPE” (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks. It will give you a complete Win32… Continue reading BartPE

Have a Cup of COFFEE. Since we started the redesign of our websites, we've begun to put together a core set of web development principles to guide us. This isn't a new methodology, but a way of looking at each project and each problem. What these principles allow us to do is take a hard… Continue reading Have a Cup of COFFEE

My PowerBook software portfolio. It's only been a month since I got the PowerBook and already I seem to have accumulated an awful lot of software. I thought it would be a good idea to go through /Applications and take stock. So here are a few lists, please leave me a comments and tell me… Continue reading My PowerBook software portfolio

Comcast travails. David has been documenting some problems with Comcast that we've had in the last few days. In the evenings, our pings to everything have been sky-high, with latency sometimes spiking up over a second. This is merely irritating when you're attempting to look something up on Google, but it becomes crippling when you're… Continue reading Comcast travails