LINKBLOG for August 18, 2007

• Full Disclosure: Skype Network Remote DoS Exploit
  ouch
  


• Pentagon Paid $999,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers to Texas - Yahoo! News
  ouch II: This one cost the Pentagon 20M, I wonder if the Skype incident was more or less that amount. Mmm, probably less, 20 million is *a lot*
  


• Time to Take Stock - Drew McLellan
  Is changing jobs in the air, or what?
  


• Am I Too Old To Be A Programmer? - the.codist{}
  


• *** The Trouble With Enterprise Software - Cynthia Rettig, MIT Sloan
  ' The average professional coder makes 100 to 150 errors for every 1,000 lines of code, according to a Carnegie Mellon study ... '
  via Harry Pierson
  


• *** The problem isn't the poor database model; It's that external code is bound to the schema - Jeff Smith
  


• del.icio.us: limited time offer
  I love goodies! Catch: you need US stamps. Fortunately some advice is offered in the comments:
  
  ' Try http://stamps.com to print off US stamps (they offer a free trial). You could use your spare US stamps to send off for Feedburner freebies too while you're at it! '
  


• 47 Hats - A dirty little secret rightfully exposed.
  About shareware sites top-rating everything that is thrown to them via Michael Eaton
  


• Bite Your Tongue: Eight More Ways To Improve Your Presentations - Guy Kawasaki
  


• Transparent Software - Scott Bellware
  ' My desire to learn to test my programs and to automate the execution of the testing to make program validation repeatable changed my mind about how many paths through the system I wanted to provide ' If you can construct a sentences like that *you are good*
  


• Business Object Introduction - Derek Liang
  Don't get disappointed by the first images, there really is a comprehensive article down there
  


• A few blogs I read - "Swivel Feeds" list - Greg Hughes
  


• Client-side scripts do it faster - James Avery
  


• Feel like you can't keep up? - Live from Cairo
  Leon, it is purely accidental that I came across this referral to an old post of you right now...
  


• The Next Mike Gunderloy - secretGeek

Wow, thanks Leon for putting me under pressure ;-] But.. it's not that I get up early, but go to bed late. Since you live a lot of timezones ahead of me you can get up late, glad to be of help here ...