Jul 18 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingIf you haven’t been living in a cave on a remote island with your eyes pinched shut and your fingers in…
Jul 18 2005
The Lost Continent by Bill BrysonIf you ask me, the vikings make far more worthy heroes for America [than Columbus]. For one thing, they did actually discover it.…
Jul 15 2005
Heliologue.com is changing hosts! That means there will be a few days of transition time as I switch all of the current content to the new servers and as the DNS information propagates. When you no longer see this message,…
Jul 15 2005
The “Check out my new CD database” edition.
Jul 14 2005
A matching upgrade to Firefox 1.0.5, the e-mail client Thunderbird has been updated as well. Get it here. In addition to “stability” improvements, bug fixes are as follows.
- MFSA 2005-56 Code execution through shared function objects
- MFSA 2005-55 XHTML node spoofing
- MFSA 2005-52 Same origin violation:…
Jul 14 2005
Stupid White Men by Michael MooreI approached Stupid White Men with a certain degree of cynicism: Michael Moore doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to making fair…
Jul 14 2005
Poor Scott McClellan. Whatever, they’re paying him, it’s not enough.
QUESTION: So you’re now saying that after you cleared Rove and the others from that podium, then the prosecutors asked you not to speak anymore and since then you haven’t.
MCCLELLAN: Again,…
Jul 13 2005
It was seven years ago now, a distant time, and I was a little twit of a child in 7th grade. My group’s assignment? Create a comic book about grammar. I’m not sure what our teacher had in mind: perhaps V’s…
Jul 12 2005
It’s not exactly groundbreaking, but the latest security/bugfix release of the Firefox browser has hit the mirrors. The security fixes are:
- MFSA 2005-56 Code execution through shared function objects
- MFSA 2005-55 XHTML node spoofing
- MFSA 2005-54 Javascript prompt origin spoofing
- MFSA 2005-53 Standalone applications can run arbitrary code through…