Tech roundup – until death do you blog and stopping Net snooping

When two people die from what might be diagnosable as blogging-related stress (irony alert here?) you have to wonder a bit, don’t you?

Meanwhile, what’s the best way to stop your ISP, Google advertisers and the online version of your newspaper from snooping on you with their cookies? Adapt the do-not-call idea from telephones to a do-not-cookie system, set up as opt-in (to receive cookies) rather than opt-out.