This week some former IBM employees (most notably those who worked at the long lamented Lotus Development Corporation prior to IBM's acquisition) started receiving letters warning them that their personal data might have been compromised. This is in response to the loss of several tapes containing records of former employees earlier this year.

Smarthouse news is reporting that more than 30% of Australian XBox360 owners are returning the consoles with the "Red Ring of Death", which occurs when the console suffers a hardware failure http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/13201/Retailers_Claim_360_Failure_Rate_Is_Over_30.html.

It appears that the failures are caused by a fundamental design flaw in the cooling of the GPU.

Like many fellow IT professionals I struggle against the inevitable weight gain that comes with hours of sitting in front of a terminal with little time left over to hit the gym. It all comes down to calories - typing doesn't go a long way towards burning them, so I've come up with a few simple changes I can make in my routine to cut down the intake:

1. Eat slow, eat less

I completely forgot about this show, but someone is a passionate fan of the TV series Quark. They've put up episodes, scans of ephemera, and a petition for a DVD release.

The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals. The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes. The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread spam, steal IDs and attack websites. The agency sa