Some miscellaneous links:

• PowerPoint blog by Brendan Busch via Scoble
• A very complete collection of Newton stuff is forsale on eBay via Boing Boing
• There appears to be away to get around Proxy-Firewalls using Google’s Language tools via BoingBoing
• A USB HDTV tunner looks kinda interesting
• Gizmodo – "OQO 01+ Reviewed (Verdict: Awfully Small)"
• Apple has some updated "podcasting" how-to’s: user & server
• RSS Labs has released a new version of OPMLWorkstation [I need to try it out!]

Some computer security related links:

• "Insider Threat" data and analysis
• RAR Archive password crcaker via GeekNewsCentral
• There appears to be away to get around Web-Proxy-Firewalls using Google’s Language tools via BoingBoing
• Microsoft "IT Attack and Penetration Testing Team" and "Securing the IT Environment "

Predictions (wit some self-reflection):

• Scoble
• Jeremy Wright
• I did some predictions for In The Trenches podcast (you’ll have to listen to get them right now)

Some "other" Microsoft stuff to look into early next year:

• Windows has been awarded EAL4+ from NIST
• Deploying SharePoint Products and Technologies for Enterprise Collaboration
• Enhancing Productivity with Tablet PC
• Achieving High Availability with Exchange Server at Microsoft
• Creating an Active Directory Site for Exchange Server