Why did I get a kindle?
I got a Kindle
Reusing VirtualPC Windows with Parallels
I found an old copy of Virtual PC I bought back when it was useful. It came with a copy of Windows XP Home and a valid license key. Obviously, I can't use Virtual PC any more. I wondered if I could use it with Parallels. I can. It's pretty simple, and it lets me have a legit copy of Windows for Parallels.
Zynga Hacked: Guy gets £50,000 from virtual money
Ashley Mitchell, an IT professional from Paignton, Devon, England was recently charged with hacking Zynga's Facebook poker game. He admitted accessing Zynga's computers and putting 400 billion credits into fake facebook accounts, which he was then selling for real money. I think Zynga is trying to have its cake and eat it, too. On the one hand, they do not put vigorous security controls in place because it's just a game and it's play money. On the other hand, they want to cry foul and make analogies between virtual currency and real currency when someone bypasses their weak security and starts making money.
Portrait of a Failed Security Dashboard
The Department of Homeland Security announced that it was discontinuing its color-coded security advisory system today. In the software security world we often try to have big dashboards with red, yellow, and green indicating important things about our software. This is a great example of where such dashboards fail.