Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Odd Dream About Podcasts Since Fool touched upon it, I thought I would add my bit of deep sleep weirdness to the anals of the Internets.  I tend not to have too many dreams.  I am one of those people who go to bed, sleep, and wake up the next morning ready for whatever is going to come at me.  Monday night was an exception to this, however.  I woke up during the night at two different points, sometime around 1:30 AM and then at 4:00 AM.  What was strange about this was the content of my dream.  I was hearing the Daily Source Code podcast I had listened to while working out Monday night.  The strange thing, though, was it was like I was there in Adam Curry's studio.  The one thing that kept going through my head: "I just heard this."  What's up with that? 1:08:39 PM    comment []  trackback []

To My Fellow Denizens of the Internets The second Tuesday of each month, is something known in IT circles as Microsoft Patch Tuesday.  Yesterday was one of those days.  The bulletin summarizing this information can be found here.  There are five (5) critical updates and three (3) important updates.  The bottom line here is that if you are running a Windows-based machine, you need to patch your machine immediately.  I have personally applied these patches to two machines I use regularly, and I have seen no ill effects.  If you are running Windows XP with SP2, your machine will automatically check for and install critical patches.  Nonetheless, you can force the issue with Windows XP or any other version of the Windows operating system.  Just do me and my fellow sysadmins a favor and visit Windows Update today.  Take fifteen minutes, apply all the critical patches, and then reboot your machine.  Thank you, and if you are real good about this I will buy you a beverage at next week's Blogger Happy Hour.  I have ways of knowing who you are. :-) 8:30:19 AM    comment []  trackback []