The political success of the Spanish bombings will encourage al Qaeda and could lead to further militant attempts to work the fault line ... in an effort to disturb the US alliance.

DVR owners are still a relatively small niche. But users are a passionate minority, eager to proselytize about the technology to the uninitiated.

"We are part of the TiVolution."

"TiVo has improved [my son's] sense of the value of time."

"[My son] doesn't know about the popular toys or junk food, because he doesn't watch live TV."

"As the business grew, we realized we could have a true lifestyle impact."

Dyson: "Fundamentally, I invest because of the people."

"Of course the way you last is by changing."

"You've got to do something in particular and be concrete about what kind of value both you and your company can add."

"I think people get over-excited about [spam]. All I know is that there are worse problems in the world than this one."

Ubquitity: What's your advice to today's Harvard students?

Dyson: "I'd tell them they should not worry too much. They should look for an interesting job where they can learn ..."

Ubquitity: What do you think is most important that they learn?

Thank you, Netflix.

Netflix not only changed my routine, it also turned me into a different kind of movie watcher. Culturally, I am no longer the same person.

Like every self-respecting Hollywood player, Ben Silverman Googles himself. Competitively. "It's become this ridiculous new power game."

It's more like the new kabbalah. Google is many things to many people, and to some, perhaps too much. Google is changing culture and consciousness.

Esther Dyson says that the flood of unedited information demands that users sharpen critical thinking skills, to filter the results. "Google forces us to ask, 'What do we really want to know?'"

Larry Lessig: "Google makes it harder than ever to escape the past."

Pakistani military and intelligence officials said Thursday night that they believed they had surrounded Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a small cluster of villages near the border with Afghanistan.

This week, as we mark the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, it is useful to recount why we have fought.

It may seem a bit unnatural, but more and more of our social problems and complaints stem from our affluence, not our poverty.

Obesity now rivals smoking as the largest cause of premature death.

Getting wealthier spawns other complaints. One is the "time squeeze" -- the sense that we're more harried than ever. Actually, it's not true.

Still, people gripe -- and griping rises with income.

In the aftermath of its national election, Spain, along with the rest of the world, is struggling to answer a harrowing question: who really won on Sunday, the Socialists or the terrorists?

The main television channel TVE, which is state-owned, suddenly changed its regular programming to air a documentary on the horrors of ETA.

Colin Powell, encountering the other side of a tempestuous debate in the US, sought to assure Indians on Tuesday that the Bush administration would not try to halt the outsourcing of high-technology jobs to their country.

White House: "We are concerned when Americans lose jobs, and we are focused on creating jobs for American workers, and the best way to do that is to open markets around the world, including in India."