Scary report on Malware

Sounds like the bad guys are back ahead of the good guys in the computer security world. Malware is up 5 to 10 times in 2007 over 2006.

Kids and high power prescription drugs

Check out this PBS Frontline documentary titled "The Medicated Child". You read some of the transcript or watch it online. This is a sad commentary on an old joke "Why do doctors call it a "practice"?" The "joke" seems rather sick after watching this.

Time to get back to the ole' blog!

“We cannot stand on the sidelines while others, including our critics, attempt to define what the Church teaches,” he said.
“While some conversations have audiences in the thousands or even millions, most are much, much smaller. But all conversations have an impact on those who participate in them. Perceptions of the Church are established one conversation at a time.”

This quote above comes from a BYU-Hawaii graduation address by Elder Ballard where he encouraged graduates to use new media to clarify and explain Mormon beliefs.

While published in the Deseret News (a Utah newspaper) a great example can be found here.

NCAA Forecast

Interesting article on ESPN.com to track come NCAA tournament time. The focus of the article is on trying to get inside the numbers to predict NCAA tournament success. The authors claim that the keys are defense and controlling the interior.

Build a better Grocery store

CNN posted an article about a great new idea being tested for grocery stores using mobile checkout scanners.

Information Security video games

A GCN article posted today is reports on an information security game called Cyberciege created by the Naval Postgraduate school and a video game developer. Non-traditional training and education continues to march on.

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.