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How to hire a great software developer

_**Tell me about a time when you found the source of a problem**_. Most people find ways around problems, but don't identify the source. Great developers identify the source.

Warning: Domains Australia Pty Ltd

I've received these dodgy letters from Domains Australia Pty Ltd before and ignored them. They send letters to owners of .au domains and offer to register the .net.au equivalent. The letter itself can...

Anti-tailgater bumper sticker

I've been thinking about making a bumper sticker type thing for my bike, and probably for the car too. I quite liked _**If you can read this, I can slam on my brakes and sue you**_, but thought it mig...

OSV publishes Catalog of Free and Open Source Software for Small-Medium Enterprises

Help Stop the Bloodshed in the Middle East

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has called for an immediate ceasefire and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has joined Annan in calling for the deployment of international troops to the Israel-Lebanon bord...

Dvorak hates CSS!

> Everyone loses here, from users who can't understand why things look screwy, to developers who can't get CSS to do the job right, to baffled content providers. And what's being done about it? Nothin...

Guilty until proven innocent

If you want to read the full salon.com article and don't have membership, it's [also been conveniently posted as a Digg comment](http://digg.com/offbeat_news/They_called_me_a_child_pornographer_Campin...

The fastest stupid car ever!

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Secure Instant Messenger from the ground up

Users are simply identified by their 2048-bit RSA keys. Peer-to-peer means you send messages directly to the recipient, not via a central server. Messages are encrypted at your end and decrypted at th...

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Quick - we need to backup the Internet!

[This article](http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/06/28/who-restarts-the-internet-after-a-cyber-katrina/) describes how an overseas attacker could send the US into an economic and security crisis, a...