Cyber war or Cyber hype? On July 4th several US government web sites were hit with a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. In human speak that means you couldn’t get to those web sites because too many other computers were making them unavailable. Many of the attack failed, but some sites, like www.ftc.gov effectively

I’d like to thank the City of San Diego for welcoming me with a firework display last night. It was just what I needed after 22 hours in planes and airports. :-) Maybe just a little quieter next time? (London did much the same thing to me with its Millennium celebration.) It did look pretty