Reading: Strategic Planning for NonProfit Boards. In “The Board Member's Guide to Strategic Planning: A Practical Approach to Strengthening NonProfit Organizations” (1997), Fisher Howe provides a short, practical guide to strategic planning for members of the board of a nonprofit organization. He maintains that strategic planning is inherently a function of the board, not management and… Continue reading Reading: Strategic Planning for NonProfit Boards
Boingo inside Linksys?
Boingo inside Linksys?. Linksys's VPN wireless gateway, the WRV54G, has setting to turn unit into Boingo hot spot: I was unaware of this feature in the new $230 VPN gateway. Apparently, I've got a firmware version that wasn't intended to be public yet. However, it's numbered and dated identically with the firmware found on Linksys's… Continue reading Boingo inside Linksys?
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Stories like this from the AP demonstrate beyond a doubt that we are in a full scale LIC (low intensity conflict). The seriousness of this goes beyond Vietnam analogies. The fact is that no major conventional power has ever won a LIC in the last 50 years. Period. We will lose if we stay (and humiliated… Continue reading like this
Microsoft Alters IE Over Eolas Suit
eWEEK: Microsoft Alters IE Over Eolas Suit. The change will mean that Web developers must update methods used in Web pages with ActiveX Controls or users will face a dialog box asking them to click “OK” for the Web browser to load the control, Microsoft officials said. [Tomalak's Realm]
Flash MX 2004 Component Hierarchy Chart
Flash MX 2004 Component Hierarchy Chart. Flash MX 2004 features a rich set of components, from simple form controls to data grids and trees. The components are objects which all inherit from a base UIObject (which in turn inherits from MovieClip). Waleed Anbar's Flash Component Architecture article contains a nice component hierarchy chart, if you… Continue reading Flash MX 2004 Component Hierarchy Chart
Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button
Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players–Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia–with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), coming on strong. These companies–all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid–have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to… Continue reading Vanishing Act: “Disappearing” the Republic at the Push of a Button
SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From
spf.pobox.com – SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From. SMTP has a security hole: any connecting client can assert any sender address. This flaw has been exploited by spammers to forge mail. Close the hole, and we can easily block spammers by sender domain. [ … ] October 2nd 2003: A unification project has begun under the aegis… Continue reading SMTP+SPF: Senders Permitted From
RSS-Data for ColdFusion
RSS-Data for ColdFusion. Roger Benningfield has posted a working implementation of RSS-Data for ColdFusion MX. As part of it, he's included an updated XML-RPC library, too, and provides a new serialization/deserialization method to the ColdFusion Component. What's most interesting is how little code it takes to work with, thanks to CFML and CFCs. [Jeremy Allaire's… Continue reading RSS-Data for ColdFusion
RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation
RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation. Bryan Field-Elliot of PingID makes the connection between something like RSS-Data and the need for true pub/sub style infrastructure for RSS. Like others, he's frustrated by the “pull” nature of subscribing to RSS data feeds. In a separate email, I pointed out to him that RSS 2.0 already provides functionality (in the… Continue reading RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation
Spambusters
Boston Globe: Spambusters. The low-level fighting between techies and spammers that followed Canter's original blast has erupted into a full-scale war. And the most interesting dimension of the battle against spam is the manifold brigade of warriors now assembled to fight it. [Tomalak's Realm]