Since I don’t really have anything interesting of my own to write about, I thought I’d take a minute to throw some highlights from the link blog up for those of you who don’t keep up with that on a regular basis.
The IT Question Bank
The Security Industry wants you to be afraid
Feeling Daring? Try the Firefox 1.01 Beta
Toolbar Legal Action -iSearch sends out it’s lawyers.
And many more.. 🙂
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