Spyware/Adware

Foiling spyware
Layers of security
SPIM (Instant Messaging spam)
Spyware Info

Via Scoble:
Adaware
Spybot
Spyware Blaster
Parasites
Bazooka Adware and Spyware Scanner

The Fallen

Nightline plans to dedicate their entire show this Friday to showing pictures, and reading the names, of the men and women from the armed forces who have been killed in combat in Iraq. I resent this and sent this following email:

I do not plan to tune in to this friday’s episode titled “The Fallen”.

As a matter of fact I resent your broadcasting it.

Doing so, without presenting the basis and context of why they died is very one-sided.

I don’t understand why ABC would continue to almost daily report dead counts. At what number should the US pull out of IRAQ? That seems to be your implied question. Whether intended or not, I believe this shows a bias by the newsmedia to concentrate on the bad side of War. Why would anyone support it given the unbalanced coverage?

Why not dedicate a show monthly to list all public service deaths? Is a soldier’s life worth more than a policeman’s? What about all the military deaths outside of Iraq and Afghanistan? Why not list the deaths of innocent people in the USA that are cut down by crime every day? Why aren’t they worth a mention?

Our society and particularly the news media seems to promote sensationism and helps create inequities when it comes to putting a value on someone’s life.

Home Office Photo

Nick posts a picture of his home office. His dual 21in LCD monitors has my one 15in LCD and 19in CRT beat.

I’ll have to post a picture of my own home office.

Were we right to have driven Saddam out?

Salam responds to a soldier’s questions

Free after Rebate

Free after Rebate [via Richard]

Why Reboot. Cleaning up “Setup” programs

This articles explains the need to reboot after a setup program runs:

Wish Lists for P2P

Don has an interesting idea.
Makes me think of the idea to subscribe to keyword(s) on a blog where you receive posts that hopefully have to do with a subject you’re interested in. Categories wouldn’t be sufficient because a person’s name, for example, could appear in multiple categories and you have no idea what category to subscribe to.

Update: Richard has always had good ideas on the topic of SocialSoftware. He aggregates his posts here

The rich client is back

“…the rich client is back, with a vengeance. Smart clients offer significant advantages in productivity, time to market and application usability” [Via Juval Lowy]
Robert defines Rich clients
Web Apps are Hot

A large dictionary is not a good thing

The English language has so many words that if you included them all, then common typographical errors would often match (by coincidence) a valid English word and therefore not be detected by the spell checker. Which would go against the whole point of a spell checker: To catch spelling errors. [via Raymond Chen]

Update 040409:
Today, I was killing some time and picked up “Writing Solid Code” by Steve Maguire in 1993. On Pg 3 the same point was made.