WSJ.  Video conferences surged last week.

WSJ.  Video conferences surged last week. Companies that provide conferencing services say usage swelled 10% to 50% last week, as companies stepped up efforts to communicate with their employees — including those temporarily stranded following the attacks in New York and Washington.  Companies that deliver audio, video or computer data to users' personal computers also… Continue reading WSJ.  Video conferences surged last week.

Larry Staton

Larry Staton is contributing to the superopendirectory with a directory of legal resources. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Jerusalem Post

Jerusalem Post.  Mossad warned US of major attacks. Mossad officials traveled to Washington last month to warn the CIA and the FBI that a cell of up to 200 terrorists was planning a major operation, according to a report in the Sunday Telegraph here yesterday. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Confessions of an Accidental Programmer

Confessions of an Accidental Programmer. O'Reilly: Confessions of an Accidental Programmer “Deciding that it was better to light a candle than curse the darkness, in 1998 I created a novice-level tutorial called The Beginners Guide to CGI Scripting with Perl. The response was gratifying; the site seemed to strike a chord with other accidental programmers,… Continue reading Confessions of an Accidental Programmer

An Introduction to the Semantic Web

An Introduction to the Semantic Web. Ah, a link having nothing to do with terrorists, or war. How about an introduction to The Semantic Web? [More Like This WebLog]

That Darned Content 2

That Darned Content 2. In our previous column we showed you how to tastefully present long blocks of content in your Web designs. But what do you do when you don't have enough content? Well, you can either find more, or get creative; and our own Wendy Peck discusses both approaches. 0917 [WebReference News]

That's the Ticket

CIO: That's the Ticket. Michael Schrage. Organizations that truly want to change in ways that matter surely need managers and leaders–but they also need tour guides. A firm that wants to become more innovative shouldn't be hiring and acquiring innovators or going off to “innovation classes”… [Tomalak's Realm]

Unsavory – Continuing to read Taliban. The hisory of Afghanistan and Central Asia over the last few thousand years makes the Balkans look like a church. The Taliban rose to power with bribery, backstabbing, smuggling, opium traficking; and they look like saints compared to the people they defeated. It is shocking that Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States, and others actually ever trusted them enough to negotiate anything. As far as I can tell, the Taliban have broken every promise they have ever made to anyone outside of their realm.

To add to my comments yesterday about how hackers are pretty deluded if they thought they could do anything “computer” to stop Bin Laden, the book talks about how the top leaders of the Taliban coordinated most of their troop movements and negotiations via instructions written on pieces of paper from the back of cigarette packs. It is only recently that they have become wealthy enough to use normal pads of paper to write their directives. Their leader, mullah Omar and his second in command have never been photographed. You can, however, recognize them based on the former's missing right eye and the latter's gouged wooden pegleg and missing finger. Mullah Omar in 1996 donned the cloak of the prophet Mohammed (yes, the actual 2,000 year-old piece of cloth) and was declared by a few thousand Islamic teachers to be the leader of Islam. Some other interesting facts: Zoroastrianism is still alive today in parts of Afghanistan. Christian followers of the heretic Nestor were centered in Afghanistan. The Turkic language first took on a life beyond Persian in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was the seat of government for Timur the Lame. [Better Living Through Software

Unsavory – Continuing to read Taliban. The hisory of Afghanistan and Central Asia over the last few thousand years makes the Balkans look like a church. The Taliban rose to power with bribery, backstabbing, smuggling, opium traficking; and they look like saints compared to the people they defeated. It is shocking that Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,… Continue reading Unsavory – Continuing to read Taliban. The hisory of Afghanistan and Central Asia over the last few thousand years makes the Balkans look like a church. The Taliban rose to power with bribery, backstabbing, smuggling, opium traficking; and they look like saints compared to the people they defeated. It is shocking that Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United States, and others actually ever trusted them enough to negotiate anything. As far as I can tell, the Taliban have broken every promise they have ever made to anyone outside of their realm.

To add to my comments yesterday about how hackers are pretty deluded if they thought they could do anything “computer” to stop Bin Laden, the book talks about how the top leaders of the Taliban coordinated most of their troop movements and negotiations via instructions written on pieces of paper from the back of cigarette packs. It is only recently that they have become wealthy enough to use normal pads of paper to write their directives. Their leader, mullah Omar and his second in command have never been photographed. You can, however, recognize them based on the former's missing right eye and the latter's gouged wooden pegleg and missing finger. Mullah Omar in 1996 donned the cloak of the prophet Mohammed (yes, the actual 2,000 year-old piece of cloth) and was declared by a few thousand Islamic teachers to be the leader of Islam. Some other interesting facts: Zoroastrianism is still alive today in parts of Afghanistan. Christian followers of the heretic Nestor were centered in Afghanistan. The Turkic language first took on a life beyond Persian in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was the seat of government for Timur the Lame.

[Better Living Through Software