The difficulties that I had posted about before have been picked up by some larger blogs and gotten quite a bit of notice.  I'm glad that I wasn't the only one that was frustrated by this

Microsoft takes email design back 5 years at CampaignMonitor.com

Microsoft breaks HTML email rendering in Outlook 2007 at SitePoint.com

Over at Coding Horror I found this post that describes a proposed programmer's bill of rights.  This is right on,  at a previous work place my team was afforded nearly none of this.   They put us in the most disruptive place in the building, right next to the manufacturing area with a wide open door.  They had the most uncomfortable chairs and asked us to use $2 KeyTronic keyboards, and a crappy mouse.  Now that I work at home these were the first things I fixed since I was able to create my own work environment.

Summary:
Every programmer shall have two monitors
Every programmer shall have a fast PC
Every programmer shall have their choice of mouse and keyboard
Every programmer shall have a comfortable chair
Every programmer shall have a fast internet connection
Every programmer shall have quiet working conditions

AT&T is all back together again, which can't be good for anyone.  
Here is a funny clip that Stephen Colbert did on it.  You can't really sum it up any better than that.

A few weeks ago my sister sold her computer on craigslist.  I had warned her she needs to fully wipe the hard drive before she actually sold it and suggested using GDisk which is what I am familiar with.  But she couldn't get access to the program and just fdisk'd it and formatted and and hoped for the best.  I ran across this post which is a free utility that will essentially do the same thing for you.  You just download it, burn it to cd and boot, the options are pretty simple, just type in autonuke and it will wipe the drive three times.  Thats enough to keep anyone that is only mildly interested in what might have been on the drive out.