Toyota transitioning to hybrids

Toyota plans to have no pure-gasoline autos by 2012

I'm waiting to see the MR2 hybrid. Then I wouldn't have to feel guilty about wanting a sporty car while also wanting to be ecologically and economically thoughtful. 40 mpg sports car? Oh, yeah!

Toyota sold nearly 37,000 hybrid cars last year, out of nearly 6 million total sales. And they expect to transition to all-hybrid by 2012? Neat trick. Apparently hybrid cars cost $3000 more to produce than a comparable pure-gasoline driven auto.

Information Systems Agency

The ever-vigilant information systems security officer has just announced that there are email greeting cards that install porn on your computer. Thanks for that timely information. Spent a couple weeks hiding under a rock, have you?

Defense Information Systems Agency, the most messed-up group of IT folks I've had the misfortune of dealing with. Our MS Office binaries are stored on a file server, so they are slow and crash-prone. The official browser for DISA is Netscape Navigator 4.7. The IT shop won't support laptops or PDAs, regardless of how many are purchased by the various departments. Ostriches.