Friday, May 19, 2006

Procrastination = unconscious

Anne Gennett is a coach with the David Allen Company who blogs ideas for those interested in David's approach to "Getting Things Done." Her lastest article titled
The 'I'll do it later' Conundrum started a thought train reagrding the anti-spiritual practice of procrastination. Take a few minutes to read her article and see if it has the same effect on you.

The effect could have been personnal, as I read this instead of making the next phone call on my list... but i doubt it, it seems to universal.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

21st Centry Wiretapping

Ed Felton is posting a series of thoughtful articles on wiretapping at Freedom to Tinker.
So government will have greater eavesdropping capabilities and, more interestingly, it will have different capabilities. How should we respond? Surely it is not right simply to let government do whatever it wants — this has never been our policy. Nor can it be right to let government do no wiretapping at all — this has not been our policy either. What we need to understand is where to draw the line, and what kind of oversight and safeguards we need to keep our government near the line we have drawn.

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Gone in 20 Minutes: using laptops to steal cars

Looks like the hackers have hooked up with the chop-shop teams to steal new cars. The article Gone in 20 Minutes: using laptops to steal cars will make people with an new electronic fob think twice about the security of their vehicle.