Searchin' for the Surfer's Saint. News that the Pope regards the Internet as a 'wonderful instrument' may revive interest in the Catholic Church's search for the medium's patron saint. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News]

Turning Macs on Thievery. Stolen computers are notoriously difficult to recover. But a Houston man cleverly found his sister's stolen iMac using remote control software, friends on the Net, luck and brains. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

Knowledge Workers and K-Logs This is another post to K-Logs.  If you like this content, you are more than welcome to subscribe. When I worked at Forrester (a top technology research company), the CEO George Colony used to say (paraphrased), “in a sense our business is a like a mill.  We grind raw grain into flour.   It is my… Continue reading

Knowledge Workers and K-Logs

This is another post to K-Logs

New Radio 8 feature. Now you can post to categories without posting to the home page. If you have categories enabled, there's a new checkbox, the first one, called Home Page (it effectively becomes a category). By default it's checked. Now you can easily publish multiple weblogs, going to lots of different locations, from one… Continue reading New Radio 8 feature

The ghosts of “Gosford Park”. Robert Altman doesn't just enliven the corpse of the manor-house murder mystery — he reunites it with its vital literary forebears. [Salon.com]

Book Excerpt: Programming Jabber, Pt 2. Having downloaded and configured the Jabber server, it's now time to put it to good use. Starting and stopping the server is the main focus of this excerpt, with additional information on what to do when things go wrong. From O'Reilly.  [WebReference News]

Tinderbox!. Ceres will soon have a new name: Tinderbox. [Mark Bernstein]

High Speed on Verizon's Horizon. High-speed mobile services weren't supposed to come to the United States for quite a while, but Verizon Wireless is expected to announce the establishment of a service soon. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]

Too many Updates already, users tell The Beast. Windows Update workaround in the works [The Register]

DevArticles: PHP articles for serious developer. This is a fantastic site for PHP articles. Appears to be updated daily. Also covers .NET and ASP. [PHP Everywhere]