1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

For example, many implementations of CORBA do not contain a security service at all.

Quote is from chapter which tells about different distributed object platforms and what things to consider when choosing one. It is from the “Building Secure Software: How to avoid security problems the right way” by John Viega and Gary McGraw. I’ve been reading for my thesis and it was just few centimeters from my right hand.