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- This hour's show is called Beukeboom's Latest Favorites. The main Whole Wheat Radio site is at: http://www. wholewheatradio. |
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- It appears that the UN wants to take control of the Internet. (And they are already acting predictably anti-freedom about it.) Clearly, this would presage a major shift in the way that the Internet works, and I'm inclined to think that it won't be a change for the better. But... |
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- TVA officials say 83,000 people live in the ten mile radius around the Sequoyah nuclear plant. And soon, they will be getting a calendar in their mailbox, full of safety tips in the case of a nuclear emergency. |
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- Adobe's versatile—and increasingly ubiquitous—Portable Document Format has a flexibility and grace all its own, but lacks solid security restrictions and isn't yet developer-friendly. |
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- A congressional committee's fourth annual Federal Computer Security Report Card finds that the security of government networks is slowly improving, but still rates a failing grade overall. |
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- In the wake of embarrassing security failures, makers of electronic voting machines have banded together to form the Election Technology Council. |
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- AOP training and tool support are key issues for future growth. |
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- As our intrepid apprentice becomes accustomed to his new mentor’s deceptively slow pace, he learns a lesson in appreciation. Episode 19. |
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- Proponents of the contractor-programmer labor model argue that design and project management jobs will stay in the U.S. while basic coding gets shipped out. But is the tide of high-abstraction tools and practices rising fast enough to compensate for historic levels of IT unemployment? |
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- The types of projects being outsourced closely mirror the makeup of application development overall, but they do skew to large, Java-based client/server systems for the software, finance and telecom industries. |
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- The Great Plains are trying to establish themselves as a new tech mecca. Will North Dakota help to stem the offshore tide? |
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- For those who want both the 30,000-foot view and microscopic detail on IT projects, portfolio management tools and techniques aim to be the answer. |
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- The offshore exodus inspires some sad musings about the attitude of gratitude—and its conspicuous absence in today's American corporate life. |
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- Any software project is a challenge, and using external contractors can just as easily compound the difficulties as circumvent them. Here are seven steps to making the offshore relationship work. |
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- Hiring managers value time in the trenches over advanced degrees and tool mastery—so make your résumé reflect that fact. Part 2 of a series. |
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- When words have multiple meanings, finding consensus can be a difficult challenge. How do we implement naming standards in the organization? |
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code4lib (Dec 11 2003 07:01 GMT) - If you are interested in discussing computer programming in the area of library and information sciences you might want to subscribe a new email list code4lib. Dan Chudnov, Chuck Bearden, Eric Morgan, Rob Fox and I got to talking via email about it, and it seemed like a good idea. Chuck (who helped mature the perl4lib list) instigated code4lib since he's been getting into python more for the past year or so, and thought we don't really need another language specific list :-) The idea is that code4lib is to provide a place where people can discuss the application of particular programming languages as well as the general issues, techniques, philosophies, and even history of programming for and in libraries. There are other venues (web4lib, xml4lib, perl4lib, php4lib) but this list hopes to encourage the holistic use of programming languages, how to integrate applications across language boundaries, and to provide useful discussion on how to select the right tool for your particular job. |
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- NY Times reports that Trojan Horse programs are creating p2p networks out of infected computers, and that "operators" of these underground networks are charging $50/machine to others who want to use them for spamming and scamming. The owners of the computers are presumably unaware of any of this. [ED: |
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- Mail and Guardian, Liberal daily of Johannesburg, South Africa |
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- Jerusalem Post, Conservative daily of Jerusalem, Israel |
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- ich ärgere mich gerade mit mozilla herum - los, ihr mozilla-fans da draussen, steht auf und sagt mir mitten ins gesicht, dass dieser browser das nonplusultra sei! von wegen. ja, der ie ist von microsoft und damit per definitionem lausig und schlecht. aber er steht wenigstens meiner ohnehin bescheidenen kreativität nicht im wege. vielleicht bin ich aber auch nur zu blöd. |
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- They burn, blow up, their tires suck, and even if they're in mint condition, they still don't drive that well. So why do people still buy and drive Ford cars and trucks? |
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- Nothing as tasty as John Ashcroft jokes. This one is just fantastic. (What's the over-under on a wiretap on my phone line after posting this?) |
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- Leave it to idiots who sue to generate more controversy and sales for what they are trying to prevent in the first place. If people want to drink Hitler wine and give each other gay nazi backrubs, let them. Make, bottle and sell an anti-Hitler wine. Don't be a nazi yourself and pull a Bill O'Reilly. As long as nobody's getting murdered, let morons have the freedom to hate. |
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- After seeing him a few months back on Conan, I have to say, I really hope he's joking about this. But lately Hunter S. Thompson has sure had the Honolulu Marathon on his mind, and in this week's Page 2 column he is on his way to the race in Hawaii, spinal implant and all. |
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- The Secret Service is investigating rapper Eminem, following reports of a new song from the multi-platinum rapper that features the following lyric: "F--- money/ I don't rap for dead presidents/ I'd rather see the president dead/ It's never been said, but I set precedents." Eminem's camp issued no formal comment on the matter, and the Secret Service would only verify that they are "looking into the matter." |
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- A lot of people seem convinced that none of the candidates that Dems are trotting out in 2004 stand a snowball's chance in hell against incumbent George W. Bush. But according to the Washington Post's William Kristol, stranger things have most certainly happened. |
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¿De donde? (Dec 11 2003 07:00 GMT) - aver aver ..... |
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- Cross-channel ferry services are braced for a second day of disruption with seafarers set to block the ports of Calais and Cherbourg. |
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- The folks at Aximusers.com are looking for a few artistic people to help them design a new logo for their site. So, they're having a contest with some great giveaways to the winners. The details of the contest, which runs through the end of December, are: "Design a new logo for Axim Users Dot Com. |
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- ask.metafilter.comtrack this site | 7 links |
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- The Rise of the Spammers .. an excellent columnsecurityfocus. com/guest/24043track this site | 6 links |
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- NYTimes: The Dean Connection .. Read the entire story .. Good NYT article .. Times magnytimes. |
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