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Security for the Rest of Us

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Tired of shelling out once a year for your Norton upgrade? Trying to figure out which freeware firewall is the right one to install? Know you want to run spyware but can’t figure out which is the most reliable?
Well wonder no more! CNet has kindly brought together a list of their highly-rated, totally-free security […]

The Mysteries of the West

Saturday, November 11th, 2006

I awoke this morning to a low rattling sound. I briefly wondered if I was experiencing an earthquake. This being only my third month in California, I still carry all the East Coast paranoia about the West’s tectonic instability. The bed wasn’t shaking though, so I cast a wider mental net. The sound continued.
I sat […]

Hot Wings Networking

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

I recently heard a great definition differentiating extroverts from introverts. Extroverts get energy from exchanging information with others, while introverts get energy from internal processing of information.
The world, it turns out, does not divide neatly into chipper, over-caffeinated sorority- and fraternity-types on one side, and bungling social-pariahs on the other. It’s not about whether […]