Techie Manager

From Yahoo! Tech:
The Milken Institute’s 2008 State Technology and Science Index looked at five major areas before compiling the list below, which included the state’s ability to attract funding, skilled tech workers, and new businesses. Here is the list of the top ten most tech savvy states:
1. Massachusetts
2. Maryland
3. Colorado
4. California
5. Washington
6. Virginia
7. Connecticut
8. Utah
9. [...]

Finally…oh, yeah - NOW I’m getting one.
From TheStreet.com via Yahoo!:
On March 6, Apple is holding an event for analysts and the media to formally announce plans for its highly anticipated iPhone and iPod Touch software developers’ kit (SDK) that would allow third-party applications to run on the device. Those applications, which in my mind more [...]

Finally - a sport for sysadmins and network engineers everywhere! From http://www.speedcabling.org/:
Speedcabling is a competitive sport in which contestants race to unravel a bundle of wires.
The Regulation Cable Set
There are two types of competition. In 2-2-2 competition, the contestant’s set consists of two 7-foot cables, two 14-foot cables, and two 21-foot cables. [...]

…or, “My Mac Conversion”
Background
As I had posted previously, my good friend Bob gave me his old Apple Powerbook G4 12″ back in January. I had wanted a Mac for years, but was a dedicated Windows user (I also ran both Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux, but they were secondary machines). Windows had [...]

From The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
He’s got 100 Macs in his basement, including 30 Mac Classics and 18 original iMacs, as well as both a Lisa and a 20th Anniversary Macintosh. And these aren’t just sitting around on shelves with cords all over the place– oh no. These are set up just as Jobs would want [...]

Interesting article in Business Week:
BusinessWeek research has found that fewer than one out of three executives who reach those lofty heights do so with the help of an MBA. And if you think a sheepskin from a top school is a necessity, think again. Only half of the executives with MBAs went to the top [...]

This is cool in the very geekiest sense of “cool”. From Ars Technica:
One of the big draws of OS X has always been the UNIX-like, BSD heritage of the operating system. Apple has always touted OS X as UNIX-based and played up the security, stability, and compatibility that comes with the BSD foundation. The company [...]

Wow.

Some shameless self-promotion in Computerworld magazine:
A coalition of 360 users and vendors led by the SANS Institute last week launched a new information security skills assessment and certification program for corporate and government software programmers.
The National Secure Programming Skills Assessment (NSPSA) examinations will provide IT managers with a process for assessing the secure coding skills [...]