Bush in 30 seconds

Moveon.org is a political group started during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades. I’ve found their interest and their approach appealing.
Moveon.org sponsored a political advertising contest called Bush in 30 seconds that received some really well-done entries. One entry in particular, “In My Country” sent a chill down my spine. The [...]

moving and shaking…

Between working with a couple of clients, taking care of my son, looking for work and keeping a house going, I’ve been drinking way too much coffee, staying up too late, and getting up too early. The getting up early part I can’t fix - that’s my son’s doing. But, the getting to bed [...]

More MyDoom info…

http://www.math.org.il/newworm-digest1.txt has all of the (confirmed) information regarding MyDoom (AKA Winarg, Win.SCO, and other names). A summary is available at http://www.math.org.il/mydoom-facts.txt.
Between the misinformation and the state of anti-virus software/marketing engines, there’s been a lot of noise about this virus. The aforementioned sites do a good job of forensics.
Oh, yeah, doing my part for google [...]

Ok, my first LJ Quiz…

<img src=”http://images.quizilla.com/M/melficedarkmage/1072741473_thefragile.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”The Fragile”><br><b>The Fragile</b>
You’re the softer side of many harder and more<br>difficult sides such as The Downward Spiral and<br>Broken. You know what its like to be in love,<br>you know its gains and its losses. You also<br>know that the power of 2 is greater than 1.
<br><br><a href=”http://quizilla.com/users/melficedarkmage/quizzes/Which%20NIN%20era%20are%20you%3F/”> <font size=”-1″>Which NIN era are [...]

Steps you can take to ensure safe surfing with Internet Explorer

From <a href=http://www.slashdot.org>./</a>:
<a href=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;833786>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5Bln%5D;833786</a>
<i>”In a recent Microsoft Knowledge Base article, they provide ‘Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks.’ These steps include always using SSL/TLS, typing ‘JScript commands’ in the address bar, and typing in URLs instead of clicking links! I [...]

MyDOOM

Lots of misinformation is floating on the net regarding this new worm - I’ve already got 40-50 copies of it stopped by my Procmail Sanitizer script. ETrust EZ Armor came out with a signature update the day of the release, covering my desktops.
What I’ve heard so far:

The Virus opens up 63 threads and tries [...]

Yesterday was a bad day…

I’ve been burning the candle at both ends - taking care of the house, taking care of my son, and tying up some loose ends for a client of mine. I’ve been staying up late, waking up early, eating out of boredom, and been cooped up in the house for the past week or so.
I [...]