Friday, August 6, 2004

> It's official — I have a nephew! Nathan Cheney was born 4:43 AM (local time) August 6th at Spangdahlem AFB in Germany. At birth he weighed in at a whopping 9 pounds 13 ounces and was 22 inches in length. Both mother and baby are healthy and doing well.
[Jeff's Weblog]   5:35:12 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Denise M. Howell: A readers' audio version of Dan Gillmor's We The Media (don't miss the blog) is not just desireable, it's necessary, yes? AKMA organized such an effort for Free Culture, and has useful information about what software to use, how to format ID3 tags, etc. Niall Kennedy kicked things off by recording the Introduction, which I did too before I realized Niall had this covered. Niall got the ball rolling and has offered to be the repository, so send your links his way. As best I can, I'll update this post to serve as an index as well. There's an Introduction, 12 chapters, and an Epilogue...
[Bag and Baggage]   5:27:45 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Mike McBride: Kevin was kind enough to point to an article that tells people how to get around all the firewall and content restrictions we put in place on our work networks! Thanks a lot! :) Seriously though, I've always been of the opinion that if you are technically capable enough to do all that, you were going to find someway around all the firewall restrictions anyway, so I'm not all that worried about anyone reading it...
[Life of a one-man IT department]   5:10:29 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Don Park: News.com is reporting that six critical vulnerabilities were found in libpng, a widely used library for displaying images in PNG format. Note that libpng is open source yet no one noticed those vulnerabilities until now. In my opinion, libpng being free and open source actually contributed to the scalability of attacks that could be launched through those vulnerabilities...
[Don Park's Daily Habit]   1:01:53 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Dina Mehta: I just discovered this through a visitor's log - Maish uses my blog as an example in his feature Knowledge Sharing for SMEs using Weblogs, at the iKMS blog. He calls blogs the 'silent killer application of the decade' and lists out characteristics of my blog, benefits to my blog community, benefits to readers at large, and benefits to me as the blogger. And then makes the case for business blogs and blogs in Knowledge Management and Project Management.
[Conversations with Dina]   12:46:03 AM  Link  Google It!