Things I read that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 10th through June 11th:

• Trillian Astra Enters Public Beta: Does Anyone Still Care? – I keep meaning to upgrade my Trillian client, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
• Not Everyone is Excited About Facebook Vanity URLs – Interesting and a big toodoo (how you spell that anyway?) about nothing. Those that care one way or the other get and use what they want to accomplish what they want. There's nothing on the web today that identifies any entity behind any actual name or "handle" beyond corporate sites that have certificates behind which is a reasonably trustable verifying organization (begin Verisign flame-wars). Cool if there were a personal version, but those that have been tried thusfar have failed. I believe it was because they didn't wrap enough other benefits behind merely certifying that <a href="http://myname.com">myname.com</a> and <a href="mailto:fname@myname.com">fname@myname.com</a> actually is certified as Fname Myname who lives in State, U.S.A.
• CIOs: The Econalypse Ate Our 2009 Budgets – No other shocks here than to see someone else using "econalypse", though I prefer my econolypse spelling. Buckle in tight folks we aren't anywhere near the bottom so long as the feds continue to hold the stick in full nose-dive. Guess in one respect the ground rushing up to fill our sights and completely obliterate us is "stimulating". Here I thought the stimulus was supposed to be for recovery, but guess it was for fear and panic.
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