Spent a fun day away from the computer, starting with a trip to the
dump, er, transfer station, followed by a trip to the local hazardous
waste facility to dispose of a couple old computers, monitors and a
dead UPS (NOT aided by MapPoint, that had us take a route that ended in
a corn field and a turn that wasn’t there!). From there, we had a grand
circumnavigation (70 miles!) of Lake Winnepesaukee, the largest lake in
New Hampshire, and a place I fondly remember from several weekends at
my godparent’s cottage in the 60s and 70s. Lunch at the town docks in
Meredith, and a hike on the rail-trail in Wolfeboro, followed by ice
cream. Picture-perfect day, blue skies, blue lake, little traffic. The
joy of post-Labor Day summer.
Archive | September, 2003
MSDN goes subscribable
Dave Winer posts: “A white on orange icon on MSDN. Very cool.” Scripting News
Feed Validator has moved
Wondered why I couldn’t reach the site yesterday… “Feed Validator has
moved. The Feed Validator, previously located at
feeds.archive.org/validator/, now has its own domain:
feedvalidator.org. If you have any scripts, templates, or applications
that point to the Feed Validator, now would be a good time to update
them. (204 words)” [dive into mark]
Post dated 2003-09-04 19:20:04
Reuters reports in the Washington Post that IBM’s new ad campaign, aimed at the Sunday sports crowd, should elevate the attention given Linux.
Christopher Lydon interviews Harold Bloom
It doesn’t get better than this., says Doc Searls.’ Christopher Lydon interviews Harold Bloom. If you want to know what blogging, and much more, is really about, give all three parts a listen. Great stuff.’ from The Doc Searls Weblog
Politically incorrect observations about Mac OS X and Windows
Politically incorrect observations about Mac OS X and Windows.
“A few minutes ago, I had to hard-reset the TiBook I’m typing on. This
happens at least once every week or two. Some of these events have been
seemingly random, others I can almost — but not quite — reliably
reproduce. One happens (very rarely, just once or twice ever) when the
machine fails to wake from sleep. The other happens (much more often,
but by no means always) when, after switching Wi-Fi networks, I connect
to my Windows network. Meanwhile, my workhorse desktop machine running
Windows XP has yet to bluescreen. …” [Jon’s Radio]
Week 36: Microsoft Security Bulletins 34, 35, 36, 37, 38
Microsoft must be back from their Labor Day break, and they catch up today with five, that’s right, count ’em, five security
bulletins. Office related, primarily using VBA, but read the CNET
article and the Microsoft links for full details. Some seem to revolve
around opening attachments – please don’t do this, folks! – but, if
Word is your email editor, it could be compromised by opening and
replying or forwarding a document. If Word is your email editor, turn
it off.
And get those patches.
“Office users at risk from ‘critical’ flaw.
Microsoft issues another herd of vulnerability reports, including a
“critical” security hole in numerous Office applications that could let
a hacker take control of a PC.” Posted at CNET News.com
Mozilla 1.5 in beta
Keep supporting the best browser as it gets better. Check it out here.
Have ‘puter, WhilBlog
Whil’s blogging, albeit without tools yet. Whil Hentzen, famed
publisher of the Hentzenwerke Publishing Group, author, FoxTalk journal
editor, speaker, Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional,” first “FoxPro
Lifetime Acheivement Award” winner, and host of the Great Lakes Great Database Workshop, has started a blog on the rightmost column of the homepage of Hentzenwerke Publishing.
A web log in the true definition of the term, with HTML markup in his
web site tool of choice, and no ability for subscriptions, permalinks
or comments. Yet. Still, a good first step. Perhaps he’ll attend my
session on “Simple Internet Subscriptions with VFP and XML” for some pointers on developing his own RSS feed.
A disclaimer for the few of you who might not know: Hentzenwerke has
published my last several books, and I’ve worked with them as author,
tech editor and PDF-tweaker.
Walter Cronkite: A New Demoncratic Party Platform
Alive and thinking.
“Nice to know old uncle Walter is still around and making sense. Thanks to Sheila for the link.” from The Doc Searls Weblog