Going to look at it some more, but I may be upgrading this blog to WordPress 2.6 tonight. The SVN update I just did say wp-includes/version.php is 2.6.
Year: 2008 (page 11 of 22)
Since the Disney trip, I’ve been playing around with the camera more than ever. Marking your photos with geographical location info is cool and I’m thinking of getting a GPS fob/software combination.
In my searching I located this discussion on Flickr. It’s a bookmarklet (that is NOT a word) that lets you easily insert map info on your Flickr pictures. Unlike Flickr’s map info, this one is based on Google Maps and is loads easier to search location by name.
Here is a link to Flickr map for an Epcot fire works picture I took. Here is the additional link that the script inserted when I filled out the info. It’s linked to loc.alize.us and is very cool.
The loc.alize.us website is very Firefox friendly; Internet Explorer 7 chokes on the site.
Woo hoo, I see that WordPress 2.6-RC1 came with today’s SVN updates.
So far it looks and feels like 2.5.1 with some tweaks. The Google Gears portion, better plug-in management, and now arranging widgets works. When it is released as 2.6 I’ll upgrade this blog.
I’ll also get ready for the cries of support forum users who insist 2.5.1 get upgraded and maintained.
It’s been reported that Tony Snow passed away. I’m very sorry for his family and friends; I did not agree with his White House work but he was always lively and often entertaining.
I use Google Reader to follow blogs and one of the RSS feeds I have is from Slashdot. A few days ago they had a posting called Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? which was a topic I was interested in.
I use a Blackberry for e-mail and I gave up I using SPF for my domain. It just could not work when legitimate e-mail came from another set of unknown servers. The work around is much more complicated than SPF.
So I went to that page looking to see if anyone had anything useful to contribute.
It was Slashdot at it’s finest. The most useful comment was a comment about RFC 2606.
Please stop using mydomain.com and other such nonsense. Example.com is reserved by RFC 2606 [ietf.org] for use as a…wait for it…example domain name. Please make a habit of using it instead of whatever name strikes your fancy, as it is probably in use by real people.
Followed by
For God’s sake. It’s just text! RFC 2606 doesn’t specify what you’re allowed to write in a text message.
I didn’t need to read much more than that. I stopped visiting Slashdot in my browser a long time ago, time to clean up my RSS feeds.
Jesse, please stop. We all care for you and respect you. But you need to stop being the story right now.
Well not really panic, just your usual vulnerability patching day at the office.
When I saw Dan Kaminsky demonstrate voice over DNS, I was convinced that he dreams in BIND source code. It was a neat demonstration.
Now he has uncovered another vulnerability in BIND regarding UDP source port prediction. It’s causing some excitement in the work place as to what the impact could be and how soon our vendors can release patches.
I’ve had to do some explaining as what it means; see Matasano’s blog for more information. Thomas Ptacek sums it up really well here and states the impact more here.
You’ve got to love someone who can explain the seriousness using a movie quote from Jack Black.
President Nixon Bush got what he wanted: Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill.
The news article mentions that the old FISA rules were a problem, and that Congress did not want to deal with this in an election year. Even Senator Obama folded on this one.
I guess his ambition is greater than his morals. “Vote for change”, what nonsense.
King George must be pleased to have such tame pets. It was never demonstrated that there was any issue with using the old FISA rules. It was only an issue because the Bush Cheney administration wanted more power.
The current administration does not want this law passed because they need it. They don’t torture people because they need to. They don’t disregard the Constitution because they need to. They don’t eliminate habeas corpus* because they need to.
They do all these things because they can.
I’m pissed again, I really can’t wait till January 20th to welcome our new king.
*Some people may think that habeas corpus was something denied only to non-American citizen away from our shores. The fact is, this administration grabbed an American in an airport in Chicago and then John Ashcroft bragged about it from Moscow. That American, who may have been the most vile scum, was held for years and subjected to abuse before the administration moved him where the law says he should have been. If they can do this to the worst, they can do this to anyone.
Salon has a jailhouse interview with Hans Reser from days before he made that deal. Interesting reading.
Salon has a good write up on Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc. v. Bush from one of the lawyers involved. If you are a “Get them before they get us” type, don’t bother reading.
If you think everyone has to obey the law (meaning me, you, you, and especially YOU), then it’s a long read but covers the lawyers point of view nicely. This is the best part:
The situation grew darkly comic. They didn’t have a hammer, so they started debating how to smash the hard drive. I suggested they smack it against the corner of the table that was in the room. That didn’t do much.
I found myself thinking of the Samsonite Gorilla, the TV commercial from the 1970s in which a gorilla stomps on a piece of luggage that just won’t break. I thought: “These people are entrusted with our national security?”
Once again, since it is an election year, I am sure that our elected officials will get involved and mess this up.
