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The Insecure Invasion Server has been riddled with another round of bullet holes. How sick are you of buffer overflows? How much sense would it take to, I dunno, code in checks for these things? Jeez.

This one falls into the "Duh" category. As I was reading through this article I saw an archive format like this: <MTArchiveDate format="%Y/%m/%d"> How had I been doing that very same thing? <MTArchiveDate format="%Y">/<MTArchiveDate format="%m">/<MTArchiveDate format="%d"> I'm not sure why I was doing it this way. Maybe the manual suggested it. Maybe I wasn't sure […]

In "Creating High-Res PDF Files For Free" Andy lists the several pieces of software necessary and the several steps it takes to get a PDF out of Linux. He somehow sees fit to end this with "Ain't technology grand?" Unzip the PPD archive and copy the ADIST5.PPD file someplace useful. Run the PostScript windows driver […]

Seems some Iraqi soldiers are already practicing for war: The stunned Paras from 16 Air Assault Brigade were forced to tell the Iraqis they were not firing at them, and ordered them back to their home country telling them it was too early to surrender. Find more here. Yeah, short post, but I don't care […]

Last Sunday I saw The Quiet American and Jeff saw it last night. It's a Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser movie based on a novel of the same name, written in 1956. A few things explode, but it's not an action film. There's a woman torn between two men, but it's not a romance. It's not […]

Am I the only person who finds Konfabulator to be useless? Even Gruber seems to like it, or at least the idea behind it. Konfabulator's list of widgets is full of Airport signal monitors, battery monitors, to-do lists, and more. Says the description of one widget, "Useless, but fun!" (View all modules here.) Guess what? […]

At any one time in my life, I've got about five or six friends. That's all. Mostly no more, and rarely any less. Six. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Acquaintances, or hemi-pals, or pals, or "people I know," well, I've got lots of them. More than anyone has friends, that's for sure, and more […]

I just realized I hadn't posted anything on TypeIt4Me yet. TI4M is an absolutely fabulous* utility that expands my abbreviations to full-grown blocks of text (words, paragraphs, etc.). For example: "ejb" expands to "Erik J. Barzeski" "hns" expands to "http://nslog.com" "fssw" expands to "Freshly Squeezed Software" "teh" expands to "the" "becuase" expands to "because" So, […]

There's an article on giving up TV. Many of the people in the comments section talk about how bad television has gotten, largely due to commercials. These people need a TiVo. I watch more TV now than ever. Before my TiVo, I too hated commercials. Now I can watch the shows I want to watch […]

Steven of Panic talked about iPod engraving and I made the comment that mine was engraved, well, as you see to the right. I'd previously owned a 5 GB model (no engraving) and sold it for a fairly paltry sum to upgrade to the 20 GB model. 20 GB is a lot of music, so […]

The funniest thing I've seen today by far. With digicam in hand, master grabs puppy, opens Vaio, and places one atop the other. As master says "Stay" and takes aim, the puppy recalls the only trick he's learned so far, and does the same. That "trick" was of course to pee whenever being picked up […]

I've given some more thought to my idea of starting a Florida Blogs directory site. Mainly, in the absence of finding other regional ones (call me lazy, sure), I've come up with a list of what I feel the "requirements" for the site should be. I've listed them below. Please comment (preferably via email) and […]

Christina Aguilera's Stripped CD has gotten a lot of playtime lately and she's taken a lot of flack lately for being, uhhh, shall we say more "out there" than other pop stars (Justin, Britney, Jessica, Mandy, Avril, Kelly, Norah, Alicia, etc.). Christina's first album and her song on Mulan showed the world that she could […]

Wired has their Wishlist for 2013 up, and the top item is an Apple-made wristwatch PDA, phone, MP3 player, sous chef, and… well… watch. The other items include thin, flexible OLED displays, space-age contacts, and smart earplugs. Said Jamie: Jamie: oh geez Jamie: wish list for 2013... ha Jamie: at this rate.. they should have […]

Last night I had another wonderful time with a cute, fun, intelligent girl. I'm always excited when I meet someone new. She's sarcastic (a good thing), she's geeky (a great thing), and she's adorable in the mature-but-still-energetic-and-spontaneous sort of way. Well, and other ways too. I'm absolutely looking forward to the next time I get […]