These are my links for December 23rd through December 24th:

Even Keynes Wouldn’t Like This Bailout – TCS Daily – The conventional wisdom on the current financial crisis is that macroeconomic theory has little to say. I am not sure where this idea originated, but there is much that can be explained from existing theory especially in regards to policy. The work of Robert Barro, Charles Plosser and John Long as well as Nobel laureates such as Milton Friedman, Franco Modigliani, Finn Kydland, and Ed Prescott have much to say about the impact of macroeconomic policy.
RegRipper – RegRipper was created and maintained by Harlan Carvey. RegRipper, written in Perl, is the fastest, easiest, and best tool for registry analysis in forensics examinations. RegRipper has been downloaded hundreds of times and used by examiners everywhere.
10 Improvements You Can Make to Your Resume Right Now – Stepcase Lifehack – I spent several years behind a desk at an employment agency. The first thing we would ask any client was how recently they had updated their resume. The question’s objective wasn’t really about making sure that every applicant had their most recent job down on paper — instead, we wanted a chance to assess just how bad each resume was. Some people had well-crafted documents ready to send out immediately, but a surprising number had more of a rough draft. When we ‘updated’ a resume, we could address the other errors that we found. Most errors are actually easy fixes: just running down the checklist below could whip the average resume into shape in a matter of minutes.
honeyblog – This weblog deals with IT-security related stuff and honeypots / honeynets in particular. In addition, the main focus is on malware and bots / botnets.Currently, the main author is Thorsten Holz. I am one of the founders of the German Honeynet Project and a Ph.D. student at the Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems.
Diary of a Self-Help Dropout: Flirting With the 4-Hour Workweek – Time-management books command huge swaths of bookstore shelf space and sell tens of thousands of copies a year, but I always figured they applied more to stapler-stealing cubicle jockeys than someone like me. I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time. In a former life I was probably a whore. In this one, I am responsible for two cartoon voice-overs, three writing jobs, a movie soundtrack, my stand-up comedy act, TV hosting gigs, and half of a musical-comedy duo. Don’t get me wrong; in this economy, I’m grateful for the work. But without any kind of 9-to-5 structure, it’s a lot to keep track of.
Explore The Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009 © 2008 World Economic Forum – This year’s Global Competitiveness Report is being releasedat a time of multiple shocks to the global economy. The subprime mortgage crisis and the ensuing credit crunch, combined with rising inflation worldwide and the consequent slowdown in demand in many advanced economies, has engendered significant uncertainty about the short-term outlook for the world economy. Global growth is slowing, and it is not yet clear when the effects of the present crisis will subside. The financial market crisis that began in early 2007 is almost unprecedented in its impact, having resulted not only in losses in markets and for financial institutions, but also in an erosion of public confidence in the financial sector and among the institutions themselves across the industrialized world.
E-Evidence Information Center – Home – Welcome to the E-Evidence Information and Resource site. Within these pages, you will find a compilation of links to material related to all aspects of Digital Forensics and Electronic Evidence.This site was a ’side effect’ of my research and learning process conducted in connection with my ongoing Computer Forensic Research, in my search to find timely material to share with the Computer Forensic community.
I had found few sites providing more than a handful of resources, or links to other sites that may contain such material (see ‘Links to Links’ for a compilation of other such sites). So, I have decided to share this compilation of resources with the Digital Forensics community.
mailforlen – all freeware -
Fill ‘Er Up With Human Fat – Forbes.com – Liposuctioning unwanted blubber out of pampered Los Angelenos may not seem like a dream job, but it has its perks. Free fuel is one of them.For a time, Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner turned the fat he removed from patients into biodiesel that fueled his Ford SUV and his girlfriend’s Lincoln Navigator.
Divorce rates drop as couples stay together due to tight finances – MarketWatch – SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The recession and economic turmoil is creating a new class of casualties: Married couples who can’t afford to get divorced. In these tough times many people are finding it’s cheaper to stay together, even when they can’t stand each other.
“The reason that the economy has such an enormous impact on divorce is that most people in the middle-income brackets are getting by on whatever income they have. They’re just getting by,” said Bonnie Booden, a family law and divorce attorney in Phoenix.
A major factor in the divorce downturn, Booden said, is divorced couples have to establish two separate households with current funds — a prohibitive factor when you’re looking at divorce in tough economic times.
Booden said one out of every two clients is seeking consultations because they can’t afford to get divorced. They want to know what other options they might have.
Seth’s Blog: What is viral marketing? – Viral marketing is an idea that spreads–and an idea that while it is spreading actually helps market your business or cause.Two kinds of viral marketing: The original classic sort in which the marketing is the product and which a self-amplifying cycle occurs. Hotmail, for example, or YouTube. The more people use them, the more people see them. The more people see them, the more people use them. The product or service must be something that improves once more people use it.
A second kind has evolved over the last few years, and that’s a marketing campaign that spreads but isn’t the product itself. Shepard Fairey’s poster of Barack Obama was everywhere, because people chose to spread it. It was viral (it spread) and it was marketing (because it made an argument–a visual one–for a candidate.)
The 50 Best Business Blogs of 2008 | Business Pundit – Some blogs truly define today’s business voice. These blogs represent a healthy mixture of independent and mainstream voices, prominent academics and small business owners with equally strong opinions.We compiled a completely biased sampling of our 50 favorite blogs, sorted by category. The categories are neither based on anything official nor are representations within them equal. For example, we have included a ridiculous number of finance and investing blogs, an industry where coverage truly stood out this year. It is possible that we have forgotten other categories.