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Since I don't have much time these days to craft an eloquent treatise on the merits and perils of technology, you get links!  Here are some of the recent tech news that could have an impact on your life.

Since this aims to be a technology blog, I thought I would pass along this story in the Wall Street Journal about how Chinese and Russian hackers have accessed the United States power grid.

Hacking facinates me (if you haven't already noticed), so much so that I'm writing a research paper on the topic.

This is an important story to follow, because there are many national security concerns here, but also because combating and repairing attacks is costly.

Flip Mino: An easy-to-use portable digital video camera that could be going wireless after being acquired by Cisco Systems.Cisco recently announced they want to buy out Pure Digital, the maker of the Flip line of portable digital video cameras, for $590 million of stock .

At a hacking contest at an applied computer security conference in Vancouver, only Google's Chrome browser survived the first day of the competition, according to an article in Ars Technica. 

Since it is still Tuesday for a little while, I thought I would post this week's editon of Drupal Tuesdays, which isn't so much about Drupal, but about stuff we use within Drupal to market and add content to our Drupal site.

As others have noted, now is a bad time to be working for a newspaper.  Advertising is drying up, papers are going bankrupt, reporters are being furloughed, bought out, or let go in droves, and some papers are even closing entirely. 

There has been much talk recently about how to save newspapers, and I came across a possible solution that makes a whole lot of sense.

It's been two whole weeks since the last Drupal Tuesday, but it feels like much longer.  I'll try to do better!

This week we're talking about how we manage the editions of the Observer, as per Russ' suggestion.  I'll admit, I slipped up in my archiving duties this week, and Russ lovingly pointed it out.  But, in my defense, there's a reason.

Sorry for my absence last week.  I'm still getting used to this blogging thing, so please forgive me as I adjust to my busy schedule.

But, so you don't miss out, here's the stuff I wanted to talk about last week.

I'm not really sure where I ran across it, but a recent article on Windows Secrets caught my attention. According to the article, CNN used a peer-to-peer (P2P) service called Octoshape to help it stream the inauguration. The program apparently opens up a port on the viewer's computer in order to allow the program to share the viewer's bandwidth.

In Which We Introduce Drupal and Address the Lack of a WYSIWYG Editor.