| More than a year overdue, I present the great April 2008 Desert Adventure in Arizona and New Mexico.
Hopefully I'll get back to this with some annotations, but no guarantees. |   |
| Apple has not patched a serious six-month-old security vulnerability in Java. Read more here. It's recommended that Mac users disable Java in their browsers until Apple fixes this.
Mind you, the article claims that Java isn't terribly secure for any of us; it's just particularly easy to take advantage of for unpatched versions, which includes all Macs, and lazy Windows and Linux users. So Windows and Linux folks need to make sure you're running the newest, and maybe still disable it. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yesterday Cade had one of those long grabber things (the things you use to reach in tight places to pick stuff up), one with a dinosaur head for a grabber. He started singing, and opening and closing the dinosaur mouth to the words.
BTW, I want to mention that I would find this a challenge, because in doing, say, sock puppets, when you make most of the noise your mouth is open, so you exercise your muscles to open the puppet then. At least that's how I think about it. So to properly articulate the mouth on a grabber, you have to do the opposite: squeeze during the rests. Cade figured this out as he started singing and I saw him time it increasingly better as the song went on.
Just found that too cool to resist mentioning ;-) . | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yes, Mac lovers, your machines are just as susceptible to being pwned as those of us Windows folks: see here.
As always, be careful what you download. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Here's something I didn't know about, and apparently neither do most alcoholics. According to this, there are anti-addiction pills for alcoholism. Two different types, depending on the type of addiction. Note that these aren't intended to replace support groups etc., just improve their effectiveness. I thought it was interesting enough to share, as lots of folks have alcoholics in the family.
Now if only there was something equivalent for other drug addictions...(unless these are useful for other drugs as well; the article doesn't say)
There are apparently also some new cancer pills (not a lot of details on their effectiveness or for what types of cancers, unfortunately). But here the problem is that in the hospital, your medical plan covers the visit. Your prescription drug benefits are separate, however, so even though these pills can decrease the cost of cancer treatment, the drug insurers don't want to cover it because it increases their separate costs. And the doctors aren't thrilled about prescribing it either because it cuts into their more expensive, existing procedures. Mind you, as I work in the cancer industry, it's probably not terrific for my company either, but really...sad news. Hopefully it will change soon. At the moment, when people do go on these drugs, they're often paying thousands of dollars a month for them. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | The snow melting off actually left my car all shiny, almost as good as a car wash. Usually it ends up grimy after the snow melts. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Yay, the "0 degree" problem (from here) is in fact with my Samsung 215TW monitor and, as it has a whopping 3 year warranty, I'm not doomed to live with the problem forever. Downside is I have to ship it in for a repair (they can't send me a temporary monitor so I'll have to borrow one from my work machine).
Now I just have to deal with boxing it up and shipping it (ugh). | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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