Three matching face cards dealt by Patrick Nielsen Hayden:

Electrolite: Problems of modernity: Danny O'Brien notes one problem with RSS readers.

I'm forever getting half-way through what I think is one of Doc Searls' posts, then abruptly realising that I'm actually reading Samuel Pepys' Diary.

I hate it when that happens.

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Electrolite: Quick!: What great American corporation, prior to this past weekend's MS-SQL worm attack, failed to heed Microsoft's repeated admonitions to patch their SQL server software?

Hint: Starts with "M." Ends with "soft."

(Via Bruce Schneier, who knows more about this crap than anyone.)

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Electrolite: Speaking of the Pepys weblog, Debra Doyle posts this observation to the comments on this post:

I find the on-line Pepys diary strangely consoling. On just about any given day, I can go to his weblog and discover that he, too, has been fretting about money (never quite enough), the weather (usually bad), and the current political situation (unsettled and disturbing). Some people might be depressed by this lack of evident progress in the betterment of the human condition since 1660, but I draw a certain comfort from the you-are-not-aloneness of it all.