Al-Qaeda blamed for Bali bombing. Al-Qaeda and allied local militants are accused by Indonesia’s defence minister of involvement in the Bali attack that killed at least 188 people. [BBC News | WORLD]

Microsoft Transfers Its Mac Manager. REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Kevin Browne, the general manager of Microsoft Corp.’s Macintosh Business Unit, is leaving to work for Xbox, Microsoft’s video game division. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]

Common Talk. In Enron-ized America, why is populism such a dirty word? By James Traub. [New York Times: Politics]

Microsoft Judge Takes His Case to the Public. An anonymous reader writes “The Washington Post reports: “About 15 months after … [Slashdot]
The judge hasn’t even managed to convince slashdot that he didn’t act improperly.

Wanted: MS Mac chief. Non-smoker; diplomatic skills, thick hide an advantage [The Register]

Christian Coalition: Vote and vote conservative. [Google Top Stories]
With respect to people who have strong religious beliefs, I have trouble reading the quotes in this article without feeling sick.

Outlook Express in crypto processing flaw. Lookout Express [The Register]

Microsoft Passport boost through limited code access. Pseudo open source initiative [The Register]

Security tops list of reasons not to deploy Web Services. Future proofing [The Register]

Today was a networking Test-Dev offsite, where management tried to convince thier herd of cats to do some basic good software engineering practices. The best part was meeting more counterparts across the org, and the possiblities that we might actually start sharing tools and ideas, now that we for one momement saw our selves as a group. Oh… and the beef was good.