Banks Want to Swim With Penguin. Financial institutions are turning to Linux to run their back-end operations. On Monday, Reuters announces that it's porting its popular market-data service for banks to an open-source system. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

NASA Dismissed Advisers Who Warned About Safety. Some former members of an expert NASA panel now say that the agency removed them to suppress their safety warnings. By William J. Broad and Carl Hulse. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Commoditize Your Complements Remember when I wrote that “smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements?” We decided to take some of our own advice, here, so as of today, FogBUGZ can be run on top of MySQL, which is free, in addition to Microsoft SQL Server, which is expensive. We also support two more… Continue reading

Commoditize Your Complements

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Bye-Bye, IRAs. A bold proposal by the Bush administration would simplify tax-sheltered savings accounts. [The Motley Fool]

Unplugged. My uncle used to work out of a home office, back in the day when the way to stay connected with the world was to have your own fax machine. On days when he wanted to unplug, he just unplugged the fax machine.  Here is a partial list of things I will be unplugging:… Continue reading Unplugged

Ideagraph – interesting project for semantic/RDF/topic map folks. Ideagraph is a “Personal Knowledge Manager” that is in early beta. It is intended to eventually be a commercial product, but is currently free to download. [ia/ – information architecture news]

Hottest jobs for College grads. – The sixth one down on the list is corporate librarian. Neataroo!!! Here is the description from the site: “Job opportunities for librarians not only exist in public libraries and school districts, but there are numerous and well-paying opportunities outside of the traditional environments, such as government agencies, law firms,… Continue reading Hottest jobs for College grads

Now what I'd like to see is courtrooms deploy wireless access points so that attorneys could, during the course of a trial or hearing, access the Internet to do on the spot research, or pull up a key document from their office.  When do you think that will happen?  [Ernie the Attorney]

Importing from Manila To Moveable Type to pMachine. Comment: Al gives an overview of the process. [Serious Instructional Technology]

The Chronicle: MIT DSpace Progress. Quote: “Six major research universities announced this week that they are working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to fine-tune an MIT program for archiving scholarly works called DSpace, which has become wildly popular in academe in just a few months.” [Serious Instructional Technology]