] Despite stagnant or sinking IT budgets, skilled
] technology workers are getting their due.
]
] "We expect IT compensation to actually rise, in some
] cases at the expense of non-IT employees," ...
]
] The imbalance can be partially attributed to the overall
] need to retain key IT staff, Schafer said. Cash bonuses
] are the most popular way of keeping employees happy.

Oh to be an IT person in high demand in Boston...

Study: Companies Paying to Retain Tech Talent

] RealNetworks has issued an advisory, warning that by
] creating a specifically corrupted Portable Network
] Graphics file, an attacker could cause heap
] corruption. Doing so would allow the attacker to
] execute code on the victim's machine.

And now for the real GOOD TIMES virus not-a-hoax...

Holes found in digital media players

] Below we will propose a new application architecture
] based on the Gecko Runtime Environment (GRE), which can
] be shared between separate application processes. Before
] discussing the rationales and trade-offs, here are the
] implications and key elements:
]
] Switch Mozilla's default browser component from the
] XPFE-based Navigator to the standalone Phoenix browser.
]
] Develop further the standalone mail companion application
] to Phoenix already begun as Minotaur, but based on the
] new toolkit used by Phoenix (this variant has been
] codenamed Thunderbird).
]
] Deliver a Mozilla 1.4 milestone that can replace the 1.0
] branch as the stable development path, then move on to
] make riskier changes during 1.5 and 1.6. The major
] changes after 1.4 involve switching to Phoenix and
] Thunderbird, and working aggressively on the next two
] items.
]
] Fix crucial Gecko layout architecture bugs, paving the
] way for a more maintainable, performant, and extensible
] future.
]
] Continue the move away from an ownership model involving
] a large cloud of hackers with unlimited CVS access, to a
] model, more common in the open source world, of
] vigorously defended modules with strong leadership and
] clear delegation, a la NSPR, JavaScript, Gecko in recent
] major milestones, and Phoenix.

And much more interesting reading. The future of non-Microsoft web browsing appears to be split between Mozilla/Gecko and the camp at Opera.

Mozilla Development Roadmap

] More than half of wired Americans have been going online
] to get news and commentary about the war in Iraq, at
] least twice the number of people who usually turn to the
] Internet for news, a new survey found. The study by the
] Pew Internet & American Life Project also found that the
] popular independent Web diaries known as blogs have
] gained a small, but growing, foothold in the online news
] world.

... including Memestreams.Net

Iraq war a 'milestone' for Web news

Google truly rocks! It's even become a verb, much to google's chagrin.

Google

] Gaming, networks, multiplayer, strategy, personal technology,
] consoles, and mobile.
]
] This blog is about tracking the rise of games as a medium
] of popular culture, and perhaps the medium of the times.
] The Jones' kids all have game consoles, but more and
] more it's not just Saturday morning entertainment -
] games are impacting peoples lives in a way never seen
] before. There are fan sites, art books, academic theses,
] and a massive entertainment industry all waking up to the
] fact that these things are a lot more important than we
] gave them credit for. Already games are under fire as the
] evil corrupting the youth: a place formerly reserved for
] the likes of Rock'n'Roll, Hollywood or Ragtime
] (depending on your era). This blog is about watching the
] emergence of a medium, right before our very eyes.

Highly informative about the game industry, and its denizens.

Got Game?

Greetings.

I have joined the memestreams community at the recommendation of Elonka, a good friend and a work colleague.

I maintain a (more or less trivial) blog at http://andy.mooville.net where you will find frequent posts, and originally composed music and arrangements of others' tunes.

-andy