I have written an opinion piece on my main website entitled:
It covers why I have chosen to use the accepted web standards even though they seem not to be very well accepted. This is probably a topic many of you feel strongly about, so here is a place to let your feelings be known and rip my arguments to shreds. Time to belly up to the bar!
This is just a quick “thank you” to all the people who helped in my birthday events. It was lots of fun; and beyond what I was expecting. Getting older is not so bad.
Office toys are cool. Office toys that shoot things are really cool.
I was particularly impressed with the Bubble Gun and the Bandit Dart Crossbow.
Fun for all!
So Matt and I were talking about having a pool to guess when the US would invade Iraq. So what does any red-blooded geek do? He creates an online, database driven, extensible pool system.
Remember: Databases are good, but Web-enabled databases are better!
All of you know my opinions on Microsoft and security. Normally the security problems Microsoft products have are the result of sloppy programming (and are relatively easy to fix), but every once in a while we get a serious design flaw.
This is one of those cases. Read on for details The link provided below gives intricate details, and I recommend any technically oriented (whether you are a programmer or not) person to read it. If you don’t write win32 code, you won’t get it all, but the implications are still clear.
The article describes a simple manner that any user no matter how few privileges they have on a Window’s desktop can get LocalSystem (effectively administrator) privileges.
I am just stunned at the simplicity of this hole, and the fact that I agree with the author that it probably can’t be fixed.
Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation.
It was a good weekend. I got to go to Lowe’s, twice even. Elizabeth has wanted a new desk for a long time now. Several months back we settled on a design (or at least a shape for the top). That was done maybe three weeks ago but we were having difficulty in designing the legs. Elizabeth finally decided on building a set of small shelves to be the “legs” of the desk. So we went to Lowe’s on Saturday to get the materials.
So Saturday I built the units, and finished them on Sunday. Of course it required another trip to Lowe’s to get a palm sander (Dewalt DW411K 1/4 sheet sander, to be exact) since I was really sick of hand sanding all of the parts.
So it needs a little more sanding, and then Elizabeth gets to polyurethane it.
Elizabeth has good ideas. the 11th is my birthday.
But Elizabeth decided to make this more fun. On the 1st of this month, she put out all of my presents (11 to be exact) and said I could open 1 present a day until my birthday. It has been lots of fun.
Somebody with too much time on their hands (Not a read for people who are disturbed by strange things being done to reddy bears).
And everyone’s favorite