More than 600,000 technicians have become certified through the CompTIA A+ certification program, according to Mike Meyers, the author of the book All-in-One CompTIA A+ Certification. Meyers calls the test the "de facto standard for entrance into the PC industry."

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, a federal regulator responsible for overseeing compliance with that country's broad data protection statute, has issued a long-awaited report on Facebook's privacy practices. The investigation was triggered by a formal complaint filed by students at the University of Ontario's cyberlaw clinic.

Dispensers of alcohol-based rubs are appearing in public places in an attempt to reduce the spread of pandemic influenza. Are these effective at removing virus from hands?

A young Florida mother -- denied health insurance due to odd heart
palpitations -- suffers a heart attack, financially devastating her
family. A California widow dies after her health insurance refuses to
pay for care. A 62-year-old loses his job, cannot find health
insurance and now is losing his sight because he can't afford surgery. These are a few of the stories told on PrescriptionforChange.org, an
organization working to make affordable health care insurance
available to all Americans.

There are many great villains in cinema -- men and women we pity, loathe, or even guiltily admire -- but many of them are nuanced, human characters, or otherwise mythologically ethereal, and therefore do not correspond well to the sort of creature that populates the political right. But there are indeed some characters so astutely, witheringly portrayed, and so accurately channel the basic animus of the right-wing pathology that they deserve specific mention.

Late last month, President Obama took yet another step back from realizing his promise to close Guantanamo Bay by the end of the year. The president signed legislation that erects several significant roadblocks: for the remainder of this fiscal year, Guantanamo detainees cannot be brought to the United States for release, detention, or prosecution on terrorism charges.

Watching the debate in the US over health-care from a Canadian point of view, is probably another diary all together, but I would like to share a typical Canadian experience with our good but not-perfect health-care system.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Frances Perkins to be his Secretary of Labor in 1932, she said she would accept only if he would support her social justice agenda: Federal relief and large-scale public works programs to help victims of the Depression, federal minimum wage and maximum hour's law, a ban on child labor, and unemployment and old age insurance. The New Deal was born.

The White House sent a bill to Congress today that would finally require that hedge funds are regulated - to an extent. And now Reuters reports that hedge funds, which have forever resisted any form of meaningful regulation, really want to be regulated. Now we know why the industry contributed nearly four times as much money to federal candidates as they did last cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politic.

In all of the attention we are paying to the housing/foreclosure crisis and general chaos on Wall Street, we are forgetting another major component: pensions and retirement funds. The 'guaranteed income' that tens of millions of Americans currently depend on in the form of pensions, 401 (k) payments, and annuities is in more danger than ever before.

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