"The protests are the most significant student action since 1999, when large street demonstrations erupted over the closure of a reform newspaper and were violently put down by proregime vigilantes."

The road to a more moderate and democratic, though still Islamic, state takes another turn. I'm fascinated by the fact that these same folks who revolted against the Shah and took the US Embassay in 1979 are now taking the next step to retake what the radical Islamic clergy took from them in that revolution: real demoncracy. The Iranian people are to be commended for continuing a long term struggle to rid themselves of tyranny from all sides.
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"THE REAL SELLING POINT here is getting access to your e-mail and desktop PC files when they're sitting behind a firewall. If you have a VPN client on your laptop or another desktop, you can already access your Exchange server or files directly. But what if you're using a PDA, Web phone, or other portable device that doesn't support VPNs? That's when LapLink Everywhere comes in handy."

He goes on to point out where this is different from other 'access your PC anywhere' things in that it doesn't use Java which doesn't really work on PDA's (I'm sure it does on some), web phones, etc. This just creates a web-browser interface to your Outlook and file system. Not really necessary for me in that my company provides Outlook Web Access. The real cool thing is getting to the file system from a PDA. Being able to make and drop files onto my PC at home which would then be upstreamed using Radio Userland to my weblog. Um...
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A cool little article about the wonderful things you can do with a Personal Digital Assistant running Microsoft's PocketPC. Totally cool, but it's just another thing I don't have enough time to play with. But I really do need to get some sort of phone list and calendar that I can lug around with me. And I have been thinking about it.
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