Friday, September 13, 2002

Salon: Forbidden thoughts about 9/11. - my faith in humanity is restored - seems that some americans saw through the hype and thought less than saccharine things on the day. 10:27:34 AM

Digital archives - http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/tristram1002.asp - another piece on preserving our digital heritage that talks about various important archives that are no longer available, such as a 1970s report on land use and natural resources in New York, because the technology they are stored in is obsolescent. As we all come to rely on email more and more, of deeper concern is how we store our emails. There is that glitch in Outlook 2000 that treats its mail archive files as corrupt files. The Outlook Help (or is it hinder) files give clear and simple instructions to create archive files for your old email. But when you try to open them at a later stage, it views them as corrupt files - and, guess what, the Help files don't cover this topic. I found the answer through Google - a nifty piece of freeware that you can download that unpacks the dbx files and off you go. 10:07:21 AM

Morons in the News: The Free Speech Zone is for Speech Only.... Tampa authorities move 9/11 sign-carriers into a "free speech zone"... [Morons Dot Org] The morons got it wrong - the feed is here but the article is blank - shame really. 9:50:22 AM

More security woes at Microsoft -http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/289268/2002-09-09/2002-09-15/2 There's a bug in MS Office that enables people to steal the content of file(s) on your PC through sending you a word doc. It only works if they know the specific filename and if you open, save and return the word doc to the sender. This is not beyond the bounds of possibility - I can't even imagine how many word docs are flying around the ether as I write, with people making comments and returning. 9:47:57 AM