links for 2006-09-06

• O’Reilly Radar > Open Data: Small Pieces Loosely Joined
  (tags: open data standards)
• NcFTP Client
  (tags: ftp)
• Ultra High Security Password Generator
  (tags: password security)
• Bob Roberts
  (tags: politics movies essay)
• Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Are newspapers and magazines dying?
  ” Newspapers must win online, or face a future of painful contraction.”
  (tags: newspapers)
• » Why email and vacations are incompatible and always will be | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
  For all the good it does, the mobile technologies (devices, networks, etc.) that result in the delivery of email to us anytime and anywhere have wreaked havoc on our vacations (and our sanity).
  (tags: email connectivity)
• Writing ISO Images to CD with cdrecord | Linux Journal
  Fortunately, there is a program that understands how to deal with writing CDs like this and isolates you from most of the pain. The program is cdrecord, and most GUI-based CD creation programs actually use cdrecord to do the actual writing.
  (tags: burn cdrecord)
• Bokardo » 99% of Web Design Books are Not
  Most books that claim to be about web design aren’t about web design at all. They’re about publishing in HTML and CSS, which by and large has little to do with the problems of the users we’re supposed to be designing for.
  (tags: webdesign toread)
• Mission Data Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox Saved Form Data Frustrations
  Go to the form where the mistake is. Put your cursor in the text entry widget and hit down until the incorrect entry is highlighted. Now press shift + del … voila.
  (tags: firefox)