I thought the following article had pragmatic advice:
Becoming a Great Manager: Five Pragmatic Practices by Esther Derby
David A. Wheeler explains Why Your Vote Doesn’t Matter with Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) Voting. This doesn’t mean we should stop voting. It means we need to hold our public servants and our vendors accountable to give us secure voting systems.
I was reading about Ekiga (Linux VoIP application) at
LWN and stumbled across this mention of
Skype:
Worth mentioning is the proprietary Skype protocol, which has some
serious security implications, according to what researchers presented
(PDF) at the Black Hat Europe 2006 conference. Skype clients can be
abused for the purpose of port scanning, distributed Denial of Service
(dDoS) attacks and other unpleasant things.
The PDF says that although the Skype technology is clever, it is
“Impossible to protect from attacks”.
LWN reader “tajyrink” says that Skype “works around [NAT] by being a
P2P program, not just a VoIP program, by using ruthlessly the bandwidth
of other users even without them knowing about it.”
Presentation: “How to Write More Clearly, Think More Clearly, and Learn Complex Material More Easily”
http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/WriteThinkLearn_files/frame.htm
I’ve decided to give WordPress a spin. I’m using the Clasikue theme, which is more minimalistic than the default. I prefer layout that isn’t a fixed width on the web browser — I like it when webpages resize when i resize the browser window.