Usernames and passwords for more than 100 e-mail accounts at embassies and governments worldwide have been posted online. Using the information, anyone can access the accounts that have been compromised.
Hacks hit embassy, government e-mail accounts worldwide - Network World
Yup. Just, yup… It won’t be long now. 
I don’t normally blog about games and I don’t normally play any and I almost certainly don’t play FPS games. (Mostly because I suck at them.) Either way I came across this:
Halo 3: How Microsoft Labs Invented a New Science of Play
Bungie’s office in Kirkland, Washington, houses more than 100 workers in a massive open room covered by a domed roof. It’s early June, and the place has an air of quiet, frantic energy. In a far corner, a group of artists work on crafting the swoopy attack movements of the aliens. Along a wall, environment programmers stare intently at screens, fine-tuning scenery in the latest levels. Marty O’Donnell, the company’s audio engineer, is holed up in a soundproof studio room, tweaking Halo 3’s 34,000-plus lines of combat dialog, to ensure that aliens and marines curse and yell appropriately during battles (Wired’s editor in chief, Chris Anderson, voiced a few blood-curdling screams for the game). Near the kitchen area, a programmer naps in a small pile of beanbag chairs.
All I can wonder is, well, how many developers worked to make Frogger or Pong?
iTWire - Google adds StarOffice to Google Pack
In what may come as a surprise to many office productivity software users, Google has added Sun Microsystems’ open source but not free office productivity suite Star Office to its Google Pack suite of free downloadable applications.
So I read this.
I read this again.
I even read it a few more times and I’m pretty sure that Google knows what they’re doing but I’m really curious as to the why and I’m curious is Sun knows who they’re crawling into bed with?
I thought I’d take a moment to ask this…
Why do we still call the people “users” these days?
We, in IT, still tend to look down on our clients, bosses, and others because they don’t understand what it is that we do. Yet, at the same time, we’d think of a doctor as being a snob and make witty wisecracks about them still calling it, “their practice.”
I think one of the first steps would be to not call them “users” but I can’t think of what else to call them in many instances. Got any ideas?
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