We've all heard it said, so many times now that it's practically a cliche in its own right: Hollywood is out of ideas. It seems like nothing being made these days is original; it's just a steady stream of adaptations, homages, sequels (I'm looking at you, Tron) and remakes. And it's that last category that seems to be growing increasingly out of hand.

As a kid growing up in the 1950s and early '60s I was obsessed with electricity and radio. I studied electronics and RF transmission and reception, was a ham radio operator, and put an inordinate amount of time into studying how antennas worked and electromagnetic waves propagated.

The new associate recruitment market is broken. But small changes are not going to address its underlying problems. The market needs a structural fix. The market failures associated with decentralized clearing cause three problems. Law firms have to recruit based on limited information, early recruitments make the labor market inflexible, and summer internships lose meaning.

The New York Times recently ran an article about the Conficker worm, which first appeared in November of last year. Conficker, which attacks Microsoft Windows systems, has proved to be elusive and difficult to deal with, despite the efforts of a task force made up of security people from industry, academia, and government.

Even in the current economic difficulties, companies have a strong need for workers with the knowledge and skills to run networks and keep them secure from intruders. If you are a network administrator seeking to move up in your profession and earn more money, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification can be a vital step towards meeting your goals.

Student loans can really put a damper on your new life after college. This is especially true if you are like many students and owe at least $15,000 for loans. If you do not take steps to pay off your student loans sooner than later, you could be paying for the loans for ten to twenty years. In that time, you will be paying back a lot of interest even if you received fair interest rates at the time you took out your student loans.

A new study suggests that ginger is an effective all-natural solution for treating nausea and vomiting following cancer treatment. Chemotherapy is a treatment process that often comes with a variety of side effects. Nausea is one of the most common of these side effects, with as many as 70 percent of all chemotherapy patients complaining about the symptom.

For patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), it seems that concurrent chemoradiation may be the most effective treatment option. At least, that is what a new study based out of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor suggests. In the study, 237 patients with inoperable stage III NSCLC were randomized into three different treatment groups " radiation alone, sequential chemotherapy and radiation and concurrent chemoradiation.

Brian Krebs has a story in Tuesday's Washington Post about a new trend in the ongoing saga of Internet-based fraud. Apparently, criminal groups, many based in Eastern Europe, are focusing their attention on small- and medium-sized businesses in the US, and stealing electronic banking credentials in order to carry out fraudulent wire transfers.

My blog has been quiet of late, much due to the fact that I have been immersed in work related to the pending launch of The Rapidian, a new citizen journalism project in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A project of the Grand Rapids Community Media Center (with support from the GR Community Foundation and the Knight Foundation), it is an ambitious endeavor and we are just 20 days from launch. It combines a web based journalism structure with neighborhood news bureaus.

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