This week, we:

• got 14,343 messages from 220 different IP addresses.
• handled 18,078 sessions from 864 different IP addresses.
• received 140,437 connections from at least 48,849 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 50 connections being checked at once (hit onTuesday).

Unlike last week , we don't seem to havebeen hit with any particular spam fireworks for this Canada Day;volume

The Virtual Furniture Police is ultimately an unflattering view of how IT departments too oftenattempt to have a great deal of control over user desktops. The openingparagraph summarizes things nicely:

This is a review, of sorts, of the book Peopleware: ProductiveProjects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. Then a segueto explain how typical corporate IT policies contravene some of theexcellent advice in this book.

And the title is lovely; I think I have a new catchphrase.

(From a comment here .)

Following up my previous entry on this subject , I've run across another clever way to dopartial feeds: include only the first paragraph of every entry withoutany indication that there's more . This works especially well if yourfirst paragraphs are pretty much self-contained, so that they're easy tomistake for full entries.

If people haven't browsed your blog directly (perhaps because they'rereading you through an aggregator), you may be able to fool them forsome time. Won