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Call me a geek and I'll admit it. Here I am blogging on Christmas day while my two year old naps. She had a wonderful time tearing open presents yelling "Happy Day!" (She confuses Christmas with Birthdays.)

• Open Source Java Implementation of WS-Security - Now you can start playing with this stuff from Java without paying BEA or IBM. [via Christian Weyer's Weblog]
• DeCSS Author Acquitted - The verdict wasn't expected until January but it came a bit early.
• Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003 - Jakob Neilsen has posted his take on what we all did wrong in 2003.
• Mary Jo Foley Interviews Don Box - Don talks about the origins of Indigo, the status of SOAP, SOAs and the Mono project. No dirt, but interesting nonetheless.