Blogging as an income source. If you're interested in starting a topic-specific weblog, and more interested in figuring out how you could make it worth the time and effort it would take to generate something half decent, you might want to read Matt Haughey's latest essay, Blogging for Dollars. It's a reasoned look at using… Continue reading Blogging as an income source
Product Liability Lawsuits Are New Threat to Microsoft
Product Liability Lawsuits Are New Threat to Microsoft. Trial lawyers have watched with increasing interest in recent months as malicious computer viruses and worms all exploiting security flaws in Microsoft software have crashed computers and networks around the world. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]
Spy pictures of suffragettes revealed
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Spy pictures of suffragettes revealed. Photos uncovered by the National Archives show how the police spied on the suffragettes. These covert images – perhaps the UK's first spy pictures – have gone on display to mark the centenary of the votes-for-women movement. Ninety years ago, a Scotland Yard… Continue reading Spy pictures of suffragettes revealed
What I did over summer vacation
What I did over summer vacation. While I didn't spend a whole lot of time in front of the computer over vacation (not a single RSS feed consumed!), I did have a few things to relate that might be of general interest. On my first week of vacation, my wife and I drove from the… Continue reading What I did over summer vacation
Dirty little secrets of IT
Dirty little secrets of IT. In this week's InfoWorld column (jumping into the column in medias res): Because your servers are hidden away in a datacenter and software is just plain ephemeral, the dirty little secrets of your IT department generally remain hidden from view — but, oh, they can be ugly. [full story] I've shown… Continue reading Dirty little secrets of IT
Dirty little IT secret #1
Dirty little IT secret #1. A CTO of a public company (who shall go unnamed for obvious reasons) wrote to me to note that a key system of his was running on a really old Sun box with a custom install of Oracle with no support, no documentation, and no root access. He took the… Continue reading Dirty little IT secret #1
Dirty little IT secret #2
Dirty little IT secret #2. Another response to my recent column, this one from a person I'll call “Bedeviled in the Basement”: First off, let me say I'm happy to have read your article. Now I know that my company isn't the only one who has Daily Prayer listed as one of our security measures… Continue reading Dirty little IT secret #2
Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil
Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil. The findings of a secret government task force established last fall contradicted the Bush administration's assertion that Iraq's oil wealth would pay rebuilding costs. By Jeff Gerth. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
War profiteering
War profiteering. Here's a Krugman column on the sordid war profiteering and cronyism in the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq construction. He compares and contrasts it with the reconstruction of Europe by the Marshall Plan. [Ceejbot]
Palast on the California recall
Palast on the California recall. Gregory Palast writes about the Ahnold/Enron connection that means that California would lose the $8 billion dollars that Enron & other energy companies stole from us if the recall succeeds and the Austrian bodybuilder is elected. I think Palast's writing style works against his points, and contributes to his journalism… Continue reading Palast on the California recall