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I had a nice walk tonight from the docks at the end of King Street in Alexandria, Virginia to my hotel. Or, it was nice for the first three blocks until the heavens opened up. Man, I forgot what thunderstorms in June are like here. I made it to the hotel, drenched, and rested a [...]

A commenter’s Bill of Rights? Let’s think first | Coop’s Corner : A Blog from Charlie Cooper - CNET News.com
interesting concept. I can’t imagine that this would ever work. I think if you want to keep and report your comment, copy and paste.
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Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Announcing SquirrelFish
A speedy open source [...]

The CTO of WebRoot is talking about applying Software as a Service to email and web security. It’s a good pitch, delivered to a small audience late in the afternoon.
Big thoughts:

Because business-relevant content creation is shifting from “trusted providers” to semi-anonymous collaborations like wikis, blogs, and social networks, the focus is shifting away from blocking [...]

I’m at the Gartner IT Security Summit today and tomorrow (alas, I missed Bruce Sterling on the panel yesterday), and have been splitting my time between the show floor and a few of the sessions. I attended a few sessions on application security testing and on ITIL v. 3 this afternoon that sparked a few [...]

Though the AP has called the Democratic nomination for Barack Obama based on its own private delegate counts, I think it’s too early–or maybe too late–to celebrate. Cause the weirdness is just beginning.
Aside: An email list I’m on recently sent out an article advising blog authors to focus on one thing only, and I’m about [...]