Programming language for beginners and kids

MIT has developed a programming language for beginners to mix and mash up all types of media including pictures, video, and audio to help people understand basic programming constructs.

4 hour work week

Great advice for any business to follow on CNNMoney.com. The article, titled "The Four Hour Work Week" shows how to use simple principles to simplify the deluge of information that can choke and even sometimes kill a business in our modern communication-driven society.

Take your time

In the "rush" that we tend to place upon ourselves and our families, it's real easy to justify not taking our time with our children. This short story from SimpleTruths.com is a great reminder that just getting "things" done isn't always what is the most important part of our lives.

Real Estate

Zillow has a great resource for explaining the intracacies of modern real estate buying called the Real Estate Wiki. As with most wikis it is a great jumping off point to start understanding a complex topic, but like just about everything else be careful not to believe every word you read since wikis are often subject to bias.

Insecurity in Numbers

Dan Kaplan of Federal Computer Week provides a discussion on the impacts of major sporting events on the information security front using examples from the current March Madness and the recent Super Bowl. The old addage of security in numbers doesn't really hold true on the world wide web. The Internet society seems to better reflect what happens downtown in a big city or at major events in the physical world where pick-pockets and panderers have always gone to select easy targets.

How smart are the "experts"?

I've always wanted to track how well the "experts" are at predicting the Final Four. Sports Illustrated and ESPN both have handy lists of their expert picks. Let's compare them with a mid-season video game simulation and see who is the most right.

Critical who?

CNN is reporting an attempted attack on an "internet nerve center" in the United Kingdom. If you want an easy and interesting way to learn why this attempted attack is significant to your life try reading Richard A. Clarke's new book "Breakpoint" published in January 2007. It's a "fictional" novel written by a man who has been an advisor to the President of the United States on Intelligence and Cyber Security since Reagan.