...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Tuesday, July 16, 2002The Computer Doctor Is In
Received an emergency request for computer help from my retired friend Manfred in Texas. MJ was my boss at least 5 years ago. Sounds like a lightning strike right next to their house fried the printer port on his desktop computer. Bad timing, as he wants to move data to his laptop before a trip to Germany.
I plan to see another retired friend for lunch tomorrow. Charles was head of our IT organization when I joined the company over 11 years ago.
Spoke to my parents about their continuing battle with the O/S from hell and about Crystal's wedding plans. There is also a problem accessing my picture files at Ofoto.
<soapbox>I'm amazed by their tolerance of constant Windoze problems. I've used the O/S since the first commercial release. I hope Microsoft delivers a version that isn't a POS before I die. </soapbox>
Fun With Randomizer
Brian St. Pierre has written something up that may be useful to members of the randomizer network: Putting the Randomizer Referers page in your Cloud Links - thanks Brian! [jenett.radio]
Bryan Beats Us To Hawaii
Son Bryan called from Hawaii when he and Katie arrived there OK after 6-hour flight. Good digital cell phone coverage with Verizon. Katie's parents have already been there at least several days. He'll be back in a week. Maria and I are jealous; he beat us to the islands. Daughter Crystal is on housesitting and dogsitting patrol.
So Much For PGP
Outlook plug-in could let the hackers in. The Pretty Good Privacy encryption plug-in for Microsoft's Outlook has a flaw that could hand hackers the key to coded e-mails. [CNET News.com]
Active Render - Nice Tool
Marc Barrot: "activeRenderer Upgraded To 1.0rc2. The reports from early users of activeRenderer (68 have registered so far) gave me enough information to move to version 1.0 Release Candidate 2." [jenett.radio]
Kit Suite: Something I Need To Test
Kit 1.1.6.
Kit 1.1.6 is out. It adds a Radio to the Past form bit to the weblog post page, and incorporates a couple minor minor fixes I'm going to let the Kit page claim I released as 1.1.5.
I've not been spending a lot of time in Radio-land lately, and will have to carefully consider it, since I may be ditching Windows in the not too distant future. I've invested enough in Radio that I should probably keep using it, but sunk time is a bad decision-making factor.
[Mark Paschal: Kit]Radio Outliner To Presentation Tool
Announcing: "The RadioPoint Tool turns the outliner into a presentation authoring program." [Dave Winer: Radio UserLand]
Yahoo altering your email?
"Yahoo's "Anti-Scripting" Filters Examined. It's being reported that Yahoo's free email service is now changing certain words in email messages, supposedly to stop "cross-site scripting attacks". A good source of information is this article at Need To Know, linked to by (among others) Slashdot, where, predictably, discussion has sprung up about the ethical implications of unseen filtering of personal correspondence (a quick search through Yahoo's help pages turned up no information about this filtering that I could see). What's lacking in the articles I've seen, though, is an examination of just how this filtering is working, so I've spent a little bit of time fiddling with it to find out exactly what's going on." [kuro5hin.org]