The international ICT world was dominated by the HP leak scandal during the past two weeks.

Little is being said about the dire implications the lack of technology skills could have for the future of the world.

This week love gets ugly, PowerPoint sees a zero-day exploit, Microsoft releases fix ahead of patch, the US deploys e-passports, and lost laptops need to be declared.

This week: Naspers to sell R3 billion worth of shares in MultiChoice and Media24, and government reneges on skills import plan.

The crimexpo forums, limiting freedom of speech, highlight one of the biggest problems with discussion forums.

Wits alleges that I owe it just under two grand.

As the rest of Africa steams ahead with WiMax implementations, SA will have to wait until next year. How can this be a good thing?

This week, hacking laws are revised and implemented, a worm and a rootkit-dropping Trojan are explored, and a terrible typo causes panic.

This week: Auditor-general reveals the telecoms regulator`s financial mess, and MTN boss comes under fire.

With the Internet, everything is accessible, and people seem to forget that just because it doesn`t require retyping, the information is not free to use, abuse, and plagiarise.

The signs are 'in the air` that some significant consolidation or acquisition moves are about to happen both here and in the wider global market.

Not as naked as I felt a week ago, admittedly, but still out of touch with my world.