“‘Bootstrapping’, when it comes to starting your own business, refers to getting yourself up and running with as little outside help as possible. This means not borrowing much (if any) money, not taking on outside investment and relying solely on your own skills, money and efforts to get things done.”

“The work in using and writing patterns began with Christopher Alexander who wrote A Timeless Way of Building and A Pattern Language in the 1970s. When the software community began studying his ideas, interest in patterns began to spread throughout the software development industry in the 1990s. However, efforts to introduce patterns into organizations have had mixed success. The patterns presented here are the beginning of a pattern language whose focus is the introduction of a new idea into an organization.”

“I don’t really want to stick my neck out for nothing, and I guess this is better than a few years ago when he had someone print everything out for him, but still…something needs to be said.”

“A research team led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) recently broke the code behind tiny tracking dots that some color laser printers secretly hide in every document. The U.S. Secret Service admitted that the tracking information is part of a deal struck with selected color laser printer manufacturers, ostensibly to identify counterfeiters. However, the nature of the private information encoded in each document was not previously known. ‘We’ve found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer,’ said EFF Staff Technologist Seth David Schoen.”