• Survivors often regret their decision in midair, if not before. Ken Baldwin and Kevin Hines both say they hurdled over the railing, afraid that if they stood on the chord they might lose their courage. Baldwin was twenty-eight and severely depressed on the August day in 1985 when he told his wife not to expect him home till late. "I wanted to disappear," he said. "So the Golden Gate was the spot. I'd heard that the water just sweeps you under." On the bridge, Baldwin counted to ten and stayed frozen. He counted to ten again, then vaulted over. "I still see my hands coming off the railing," he said. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, "I instantly realized that everything in my life that I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable - except for having just jumped."
  
  
• Motto had a patient who committed suicide from the Golden Gate in 1963, but the jump that affected him most occurred in the seventies. "I went to this guy's apartment afterward with the assistant medical examiner," he told me. "The guy was in his thirties, lived alone, pretty bare apartment. He'd written a note and left it on his bureau. It said, 'I'm going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.'"

Residents of Samaritan House didn't know what to expect when the bearded, middle-aged man parked his sport utility vehicle in front of the downtown homeless shelter Christmas Eve.

The man walked into the building, pulled out a thick roll of $100 bills and began passing them out to each of the approximately 300 residents.

When he was finished, he had given out $35,000.

"It was like seeing Santa Claus and God all at once," said William Chengelis, who has lived at the shelter since November.

• Carry your entire Internet communication system on a tiny USB drive
• No installation needed
• The VPM's network connection will auto configure and run seamlessly on any machine with a working internet connection.
• All Internet session data (cookies, history, downloads, etc.) are stored on the VPM, not the host computer
• This PR1 release runs on Windows and Linux - final release version will also run on OS X
• Includes Mozilla Firefox browser, Mozilla Thunderbird News/Email client (with Enigmail plugins for PGP email encryption), persistent Home directory, a demo version of the MetroPipe Tunneler.
• Created from 100% Open Source GPL code and binaries.

With the recent post to the TinyApps blog on tunneling via SSH, I thought you might be interested in knowing about a free and easy to configure SSH server for Windows:

http://tikkasow.notlong.com

It's much easier to install and configure than a full installation of Cygwin. I've been using it in conjunction with Ultr@VNC for about six months now and have been very happy with it.

Also, the following page is a bit out of date, but has a lot of links to various free and payware ssh/scp/sftp clients and servers:

http://freessh.org/

- Matt Vance
http://www.minezone.org/

• Tunneling Tight-VNC over ssh using PuTTY
• Making VNC more secure using SSH
• Encrypted VNC on Windows
• HOW-TO: VNC secure tunneling using Windows PuttY ssh client (PDF)
• VNC Enterprise Edition (by the original inventors of VNC) includes 128-bit encryption and costs $50 for a single license.

• Confidentiality and MetaData in Word Documents
• Protecting Personal Data in Your Microsoft Word Documents
• Strip Personal Information from Word Documents
• How to Minimize Metadata in Microsoft Word Documents
• Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data