Life after Lucent: telecom feeding frenzy. I know the article is telecom specific but they mention the possibility of Cisco buying Motorola. If they did that (after buying Scientific Atlanta) they would own both of the head-end installations in the US cable market. Of course then they might be able to make the Motorola (formerly "GI", "General Instruments") actually not be a POS.     #>

Doug Coombs Killed. That sucks. The Mountain World pointed out an interesting video of Doug last year climbing and then skiing the Grand Teton: The Otterbody Experience.     #>

Before You Are Gone, discussion of ways to prep for your eventual death. Especially with regards to your digital life, things like login accounts and passwords, photo backups, email accounts, etc.     #>

How to tap your company's hidden network. This was kind of interesting to me since I am constantly talking about old cow-orkers and current cow-orkers exclaim "wait, you know that person?!?" They don't realize that in some cases I worked with the person for 4 years at a previous job...     #>