CyberSource is offering what they dub the Cybersource Safe Internet Computer. Appears to be running a Linux OS, has no permament storage (use USB flash drive if you want to keep anything around), and wipes back to out-of-the-box state upon reboot. Idea is to avoid virii, worms, adware, keyloggers, etc. Might be interesting for relatives you provide "tech support" for. Screenshots include GIMP, OpenOffice, Firefox, and others.

Just read an interesting article on Yahoo news!

Apparently there is an anonymous Iraqi living in Baghdad who maintains a Weblog. I had considered submitting this to /. as a story, but if you read the last few days' entries, he has already attracted enough traffic to crash the servers hosting the sight, and cause the blog provider some trouble as well. So I decided a front page /. article might be way more traffic than they could handle, and could possibly push his provider's buttons the wrong way.

But, it is interesting to read, so I decided to use my pristine unused journal for this purpose. After all, it wasn't doing any good just sitting there. Of course, I only have one fan so this will probably never get read, but that is fine, I made the info available, and did my part not to swamp his site. Which means someone else will post it, and it'll be swamped in a matter of hours I'm sure. :P