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Many people don't realize that you can get a free certificate for digitally signing and encrypting email. Thawte is one company that offers a free email certificate service. Once you have the cert its fairly simple to sign or encrypt email.

Today is Earth Day, here are some interesting earth day links for you to explore:

Earth Day Network - Earth Day events and resources.

There is a good article on devx comparing the technical features of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Commercial Databases.

Nathan told me to:

Grab the nearest book.

Open the book to page 23.

Find the fifth sentence.

Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

There is a post on the CF-Linux mailing list about support for Verity on Linux. The post started with a message by Doug James posting a response he received from Macromedia stating that RedHat AS 2.1 is not a supported platform for Verity on Linux:

"Unfortunately, RedHat Advance Server 2.

Sun recently released an early access version of their WYSIWYG Web Application Development tool Java Studio Creator. I downloaded it yesterday, and played with it for a bit.

My first impression was that it is very similar to Microsoft Visual Studio.NET's WYSIWYG application builer.

Amazon has launched a search service based on google, and it looks pretty slick. One nice feature is emailing search links: http://a9.com/coldfusion would be the link to a search for ColdFusion.

A9, a new search service from Amazon, has launched in beta.

Exposé is definitely my favorite feature in OSX, and just the other day, I found a

Windows version of Exposé called iEx.

iEx does the job, but it can be a bit flaky.

I'm just reposting this gem that Brandon Purcell posted a while back on Refreshing Web Service Stubs in ColdFusion MX. If you haven't seen it yet, and your working with web services in CFMX you will enjoy.

I'm working on a web services / service oriented architecture presentation for my local CFUG, and since I never got around to installing Office, I've been using Open Office.

So far I'm impressed with OpenOffice's presentation tool (called simply: Presentation I think).

Well thanks to Sean Corfield I understand why I was having issues with namespaces when trying to parse RSS 1.0 with XPath.

If you have a document with namespaces such as RSS 1.

I came across a handy reference article on xml.com today that gives XPath queries for RSS and Atom feeds. Just last week I was attempting to parse a RSS 1.0 feed in CFMX using the XMLSearch function. I'm running into problems however due to the name spaces in RSS 1.

Bill Hill from Microsoft discusses the most important operating system.