22 Sep 2003
Mom Hits 80

Well, missed posting yesterday, but got a lot done outside! And by the time I got around to sitting down at the terminal it was starting to rain, which turned into a thunderstorm, which caused me to shut the systems down. It's tough to post to a non-running weblog - one of the drawbacks of Radio, I suppose.

Today is my mother's 80th birthday. We're gonna take her out tonight, maybe somehwere to get a good prime rib (her favorite). But, of course, exactly where we end up is totally up to the birthday girl.

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Symantec's COO is just smokin' crack

I like the conclusion of the linked article:

In conclusion, whether or not Symantec's COO is just smokin' crack or understands what is at risk, any attempt to censor these critical security tools, including exploit code, from the Internet will result in a constitutional travesty followed by a significant market downturn, a degraded security community, and the commercialization of vulnerabilities where the market is driven by the criminals we are trying to "stop".

Analysis Of Symantec's Stance On Censorship [Slashdot]

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Hellenic Revival

On Sannion's Journal this morning I found this link to a fine article from Scotland on Sunday concerning the revivial of ancient Greek religion. (I would've posted a permalink to the blog, but LiveJournal doesn't seem to have them ....hmmm?)

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Sitefinder Breaks Outlook

Some folks have asked me: why should I care if Verisign returns a web page for a misspelled domain name? Sure, it's an abuse of their monopoly position, but it really doesn't break anything, does it?

Why Site Finder is Breaking MS Outlook & Windows Networking Utilities. I have discovered that VeriSign's SiteFinder service breaks Microsoft's Outlook and Microsoft's Outlook Express email readers as well as many of the standard Windows Networking Utilities by providing misleading error messages, temporary lockups, and incorrect status information. [CircleID]

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