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"Invictus is a short poem by the British poet William Ernest Henley. The title is Latin for "Unconquered". It was first published in 1875."

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me

black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

for my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance,

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

looms but the horror of the shade,

and yet the menace of the years

finds-and shall find me-unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

how charged with punishment the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.

---William Ernest Henley

The free Sysinternals tools, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx,  are great diagnostic and troubleshooting utilities. You had to download and unzip them them before.

No more. Here's their 5/28 announcement.

What's New (May 28th, 2008)

• Sysinternals Live
  We’re excited to announce the beta of Sysinternals Live, a service that enables you to execute Sysinternals tools directly from the Web without hunting for and manually downloading them. Simply enter a tool’s Sysinternals Live path into Windows Explorer or a command prompt as \\live.sysinternals.com\tools\<toolname> or view the entire Sysinternals Live tools directory in a browser at http://live.sysinternals.com.

http://live.sysinternals.com/

A basic doctrine of information security is to use a strong password. Your password should be at least 8 characters in length and contain a mix of letters, numbers and other special characters. See Password Best Practices from PSU ITS.

One way to determine if your password is strong is to type it into a password checker.

Microsoft’s online Password Checker reviews your password for sufficient length and complexity. As you enter your password the strength bar will move from Weak to Medium to Strong to Best.

http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx

The Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Kim Komando Show Daily Tip newsletter states that "XP SP3 includes a whopping 1,174 updates."

Ummm, that's a lot. MS Technet has a list of the fixes.

Found a couple of local Twitter sites today. Listening to Tweet Talk 1 now.

Penn State Tweet Talk Podcasts
http://rubywahoo.com/category/podcasts/

Tweet Meet Wiki
http://ets.tlt.psu.edu/wiki/Tweet_Meet

Thought provoking article from Robert Scoble: The noise reduction system. His one comment is that "We can try to swim in all the noise and soak it in." I agree with this. There are days when I do this, like now. There are days when I just delete all the Tweets and RSS feeds.

http://scobleizer.com/2008/05/08/the-noise-reduction-system/

In the comments page, http://friendfeed.com/e/15532c9a-a8c9-3e81-f922-cb14e15ae61f, Louis Gray says "This conversation is a recurring theme here. We could talk all day about "noise" or "fractured comments", but this is the new way of the Web, period. The smart content owners will adjust. Those who want new tech to act "the old way" are going to be less relevant over time."

Tech changes. People need to adapt or retire. I only need to last another 15 years.

From TechCruch and readwriteweb.com, articles on plans to be able to sync all your friends. This is all a bit scary to me.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/08/myspace-embraces-data-portability-partners-with-yahoo-ebay-and-twitter/

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/myspace_data_availability.php

This page provides free downloads of all current Adobe Web players as well as the Uninstaller! So if you are having issues with getting the latest version to load, download and run the uninstaller first.