Wednesday, February 27, 2002

O'Reilly Network: Meerkat: The XML-RPC Interface [Nov. 14, 2000] Meerkat is an open service. Its API (Application Programming Interface) is open and well-documented. I use Meerkat for my news pretty frequently.  I think this weekend (or sooner) I'm going to write something that'll post a bunch of headlines to a page on LL - of course, this is a suspect, on account of my "hair-brained idea track record". I re-iterate, we'll see. comment  4:20:00 PM

Blogger down?  I can't get to Blogger.com.  I think it's down. comment  3:27:36 PM

Multiple critical PHP vulnerabilities. From LinuxSecurtiy Contributors: "LinuxSecurity.com, the community's center for security, has been made aware of multiple critical remote vulnerabilities exist in several versions of PHP. Several flaws in the way PHP handles multipart/form-data POST requests have been found. Each of the flaws could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's system. http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/server_secur ity_article-4515.html."... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] comment  12:33:15 PM

Sun's blade servers coming this year. bryam writes, "From CNet News: Sun Microsystems, trailing some competitors to the market with super-thin 'blade' servers, will begin to catch up when it releases its products in the second half of the year. Sun will release two types of blades this year: those using Intel chips and the Linux operating system, and those using Sun's UltraSparc chips and its Solaris operating system, said Colin Fowles, director of Sun's blade business team."... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] How is this possible?  Sun releasing Intel?  With Linux?  WTF?  Chris Smith?  What's going on? comment  11:55:20 AM

Sun to release Solaris, Linux blade models [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] This sounds fishy.  Chris Smith? comment  11:54:39 AM

Todd's 2nd Mock-up.  The first can be found here. I like both of them.  Todd says, "I've got one more mock-up in me!"  So, we'll wait to judge after we see them all.  After that, we need to design the interior pages, and start chopping it all up.  Also, MT is going from 1.4 to 2.0 in March, so I'm going to wait to implement any big stuff until the change over.  According to MT's site, the 2.0 transition is going to be a big(ish) one.  We'll see. comment  11:06:42 AM

dooce.com | bootylicious since 2001: "I lost my job today. My direct boss and the human resources representative pulled me into one of three relatively tiny conference rooms and informed me that The Company no longer had any use for me. Essentially, they explained, they didn't like what I had expressed on my website. I got fired because of dooce.com." To all LL writers...beware of this.  This could happen to you.  I'm not saying "censor" yourself, I'm just saying, "business is not a democracy, there's no free speech at work, be aware." I'm really serious here.  You don't know who at your work reads what you write on this site.  Be CAREFUL. comment  10:45:36 AM

This is a test post to the IO MT site. comment  10:35:28 AM

CNNSI.com - 2002 Winter Olympics - Agents leave Cheney's itinerary in SLC shop - Tuesday February 26, 2002 11:46 PM '"It had a pretty detailed description about what was going on," said Greenhalgh, who discovered the document on a counter Sunday after the agents each purchased an $11 Olympics hat. ' Dennis posted this article yesterday, but I just now read it.  I love that paragraph.  Cheap Semi-secret Service...$11 hats at the Olympics...were they painters caps?  comment  10:26:01 AM

I think the proxy guys might have turned off caching...it looks like my news alligator is working smoothly.  I'm not getting too excited though, our proxy / firewall settings change hourly.  We'll see. comment  10:15:58 AM