Dear readers, welcome to the November 2008 issue of IEEE Network. Hopefully, the end of the year is finding you all in good health. This has been an interesting period in recent history. Acute convulsions in the financial sector will be felt for a while in the technology sector as well. As with most events of some significance, even words and expressions lose their meaning. (Think how secure you feel today when hearing the expression that something is as safe as ??money in the bank??!) But on a more hopeful note, we can remember how H. G. Wells put it: ??The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.?? So, let us wait for tomorrow then.
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