I finally updated the gallery of photos Catherine and I have taken over the last 4 years of our dog Pinto, who we believe is a mix between Great Dane, Fox Hound and American Bull Dog, but feel free to make your own guess … He’ll always be a 90-plus pound puppy to us.

I certainly agree with Mark that the availability of Open Source Software is tremendous — I believe this has been the case for a long time.

DiveIntoMark: “In the future, there will be so much open source software available, programmers will be judged by how much they know about it and how well they can glue it together to build solutions.”

IMHO, the difference is that now so much of the open source software is geared toward the average user and has become increasingly less technically intense to install and deploy.

However, the hard work is applying it to a specific workflow or task.

“Microsoft on Monday released a Windows XP update designed to enhance security for computers that connect to wireless networks.” (via CNet)

Perfect or those times when you need to send in your laptop for repair or need to recover data from you laptop hard drive. (via 0xDECAFBAD)

CNet: “The war has inspired a new variation on the venerable Nigerian e-mail scam.”

Promit Chakrabarti: “Resistance to share knowledge stems from the fact that people are concerned about job security. This leads towards knowledge not shared or used. To enter one’s knowledge into a system and to seek out knowledge from others is not only threatening, but also involves lot of effort that hunts for motivation.”

Well said.

Ben Hammersley in the Guardian again:

“The weblogging community is proving adept at compiling and filtering news in a way never seen in previous conflicts. By comparing and contrasting reports from every news source in the theatre, the war-bloggers’ adage that they will “fact-check your ass” is being played out with enthusiasm from both writer and reader.”

Jon Udell on Publishing a project Weblog …

“If you’re managing an IT project, you are by definition a communication hub. Running a project Weblog is a great way to collect, organize, and publish the documents and discussions that are the lifeblood of the project and to shape these raw materials into a coherent narrative. The serial nature of the Weblog helps you make it the project’s newspaper of record. This kind of storytelling can become a powerful way to focus the attention of a group. The desire to listen to a compelling story and find out what happens next is a deep human instinct.”

More at Jon’s weblog

Allegedly for $10 per year, Mailblocks Eliminates Spam “and offers the powerful features you want in your web mail.”

According to Kevin it’s brought to you by Phil Goldman, who is one of the founders of WebTV.

Congrats go to Jermey and the Jabber gang …

Jabber gets $7.2 million from Intel