Life is seldom simple so we must make sense of the twist and turns
From the yearly archives:
The end of another year and a time to reflect.
Personal Highlights -
My step-daughter married a nice young man and they are building a wonderful life together. My step-son has graduated from college and has been a successful member of the working population this year.
My daughter graduated from college and is looking forward to exploring her [...]
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WordPress 2.3.2 was released a few hours ago. According to WordPress:
WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used toexpose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC [...]
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My main desktop is an Apple Mac Pro with an ATI X1900 Video Card
I’ve been noticing some strange video artifacts on my primary display for the last couple of months. They consisted of what appeared to be 1 to 2 pixel wide line artifacts across the windows of various applications. Sometimes they run for the [...]
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If doesn’t seem possible that another year has past and that we are here at Christmas again.
May all of you and yours have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years.
Christmas, Observations
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Apple today released Security Update 2007-009 v1.1 via software update.
Security Update 2007-009 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components:
Core Foundation
CUPS
Flash Player Plug-in
Launch Services
perl
python
Quick Look
ruby
Safari
Samba
Shockwave Plug-in
Spin Tracer
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798.
This update is for Tiger and Leopard version of OS X and is recommended for [...]
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PRESS RELEASE: Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published… (December 20, 2007)
For Nick Ciarelli of Think Secret this is may be a winning situation [...]
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The NPD Group: 50 Percent of Mac Users in the U.S. Paid to Purchase Music Downloads versus 16 Percent of PC Users NPD Group
Interesting statistic about Mac Users being more likely to pay for music downloads. I often pay for tunes via Apple’s iTunes. However, this study also said that Mac Users were more likely [...]
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Apple released a new security update today via software update. Per Apple…
Security Update 2007-009 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components:
Core Foundation
CUPS
Flash Player Plug-in
Launch Services
perl
python
Quick Look
ruby
Safari
Samba
Shockwave Plug-in
Spin Tracer
The update is 35.4MB in size and does require a reboot.
apple, security, Software, updates
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I had a few thoughts about the recent flap of the “Here Comes Another Bubble” video and artist rights, but I couldn’t write anything that hasn’t been said before or nearly as well as Jack Baty…
Thought #1. At what point does the quantity-over-quality value proposition of user-generated content so overwhelm us with crap [...]
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Yesterday, December 15th 2007, was a wonderful day for our family, spent in celebration of an accomplishment by my daughter, Amberle.
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There’s much conversation on the web today concerning Opera’s EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft.
The conversation has split into two camps where one groups believes that anything forcing Microsoft to better support current and future web standards is good and the other group believes that governing bodies should have no say in forcing any company to [...]
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SoFoBoMo '09
