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For the (counts fingers...) 3rd year in a row the MINI has achieved top ten status by the Kelly Blue Book and came in first in the hatchback segment. Here's the breakdown by catagory:

• SEDAN: Honda Civic
• LUXURY: BMW 5 Series
• COUPE: Infiniti G35 Coupe
• PICKUP: Toyota Tacoma PreRunner
• CONVERTIBLE: Nissan 350 Z Touring Roadster
• SPORT UTILITY: Volvo XC90
• WAGON: Volkswagen Jetta Wagon TDI
• VAN/MINIVAN: Honda Odyssey
• HATCHBACK: MINI Cooper

You can check out the entire list and read more here. Interestingly BMW (parent company to MINI) was named the brand that Kelly Blue Book forcasts will hold it's value over the next five years best.

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Windows XP Service Pack Security: Uh Oh.

PC Magazine: Windows XP SP2 Has a Dangerous Hole. Windows XP Service Pack 2 promises to raise the security bar for the sometimes beleaguered operating system. Unfortunately, one of the new features could be spoofed so that it reports misleading information about system security, or worse, lets a malicious program watch for an opportunity to do damage without being detected.

Robert Scoble gave me a hard time when I advised people to wait a little while to install SP2. I'm still waiting a little longer. (Of course, I have a serious firewall already installed, and take other security measures, and one of the reasons to use SP2 is its enhanced security features, which are clearly better than what Microsoft was selling in XP and XP SP1.) [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
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