Biz Links of the Day

The Schiavo drama and the Northern Minnesota shootings have for the moment made detailed postings on business topics seem a bit superfluous. I’ll probably get back to detailed posting tomorrow afternoon (or perhaps earlier).

In the meantime, you shouldn’t miss these stories on business and personal finance that on a normal day would have received nearly top billing:

• The Fed raised rates again, but more importantly is telegraphing worries about inflation which will probably mean more hikes, and sooner.
• This awesome economic marvel, one of the few Internet companies that has been “real” since its inception, celebrates its 10th anniversary (and makes me feel old).
• Apple’s somewhat deserved but mostly lucky status as a nearly attack-free operating system is about to change, according to (admittedly self-interested) Symantec, the Norton Internet Security people. Full disclosure, I’m a Mac user, but, unlike certain other Mac users, I don’t think it’s the only computer worth using (in fact, don’t tell anyone but I sometimes use Virtual PC with Windows XP on my Mac).

UPDATE:
This writer believes Mac security software is a complete waste of time, and that Symantec is hyping a non-existent threat. I have looked in the recent past at the logs of outside access attempts on my Norton Personal Firewall for Mac before I turned detailed notification off. There were hundreds and hundreds of access attempts, and they almost certainly include attempts to read or copy files from my hard drive or attempts to co-opt system resources for denial-of-service attacks. I’ll keep my Norton Internet Security running, thank you very much. There’s more to worry about than viruses.