Daily Links: Lego, 2006 in Review, and a congressional aide gets “smurfed”

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NPD: NetQoS in Lego
Katheryn Jager helped design this custom LEGO Factory kit of NetQoS headquarters and Austin, TX landmarks for each of our department heads. Here is a picture of lego bricks in general disarray in Steve Harriman’s (V.P. of Marketing) office, and below it, the assembled project in CEO Joel Trammell’s office.
Man – to think, just last year, we were building our model in DUPLO – see how fast we’ve grown?
Processor: 2006 – The IT Year That Was
Every year in the technology biz has its notable moments–actually, given the pace of innovation, sometimes it seems like major shifts happen monthly. Significant advancements and developments made 2006 just as memorable as the old days of Y2K, dot-com bombs, and Enron. Here’s a look back into the recent past.
How could they overlook the founding of Network Performance Daily?
Security Focus: Congressional aide gets punk’d
In transcripts of the e-mail exchange, a person claiming to be Todd Scriber–a press aide to U.S. Representative Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.)–asked members of security Web site Attrition.org in August to help him change his college grades. Scriber, when contacted by a reporter at NetworkWorld, eventually admitted yesterday afternoon that he did indeed send the e-mail messages.
From the e-mail exchange: “One of their systems caught an early sniff, but was shut down with a smurf.”

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