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One of the most worthwhile things we do around here is strive to recognize the contributions made by dedicated IT professionals who stand out among their peers. We have a wide range of award and recognition programs associated with our events operation, because we feel strongly that the outstanding accomplishments that characterize the IT profession should be properly recognized.

Professional social networking sites are great for your career. but don't forget that PEOPLE hire PEOPLE. Don't rule out using other social networking sites for your career as well.

Does any major technology company have a worse record when it comes to buying other companies than HP? I mean come on. Do you recall how well the Compaq buy out went? Come to think of it, where is fired CEO, the genius behind that deal, Carly Fiorina working now anyway?

Sure Compaq may have worked out in the long run, but people who argue this seem to skip answering the questions: "Did HP really get anything from buying Compaq?" and "Couldn't HP have developed its hybrid PC sales model without Compaq?" Seems to me, HP just wasted 25-billion big ones on Compaq.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which Hewlett-Packard is in talks to acquire Electronic Data Systems (EDS to you and me). Not to mention cool Huygens-esque physics experiments with metronomes and soda cans...

Patrick Thibodeau dons his thinking cap:

On-call database admin is sleeping soundly when his beeper goes off at 1 a.m. But it's not an alert from monitoring software or from the trouble center...

Your Kevin Mitnicks, your Frank Abagnales, your Jerome Kerviels -- what are we supposed to do with our hackers, especially once they've done their time?

The generation holding most corporate leadership positions today has a lot to learn from the fresh concepts that are being introduced by the generation that's now entering the workforce. Don looks at some examples in this week's editorial.

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Are you the uber-geek at your job who holds all the pieces of the network and security together? If so, do you ever wonder where the vendors are that used to cater to you? Hint: they're talking to your boss.

Today, CIO means being more than a competent manager of IT. It should mean Lord of Process, and we should grasp that title and run with it.

Prof. Norman Matloff's asked a question 10 years ago that still needs an answer.

"Where in the world did Aunt Donna come from? And how on earth did you get the CEO of Novell to play along?" Those are the questions that Don addresses in this week's editorial.

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A new company says CEO woes finding the right person for the right job may be a thing of the past.

Please. I don't want to Link In with you today. I don't want to see your Face, or read your Book. It's not that I don't like you. I do. I'd Twitter with you anytime. It's just that if I get asked to join one more social network, I'm going to scream.

You wouldn't like that. I wouldn't like that.

It's IT Blogwatch: in which the One Laptop Per Child project is losing executive after executive, amidst rumors of disquiet and rancor. Not to mention an animated macro...

If you watched the "Dear Aunt Donna" video clips on our site, you saw some incredibly good sports who were willing to have some fun with the idea by posing questions to our resident agony aunt. And none of them was a better sport than Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian.