Dropsafe

I received this when I work up this morning; I believe that is commendably fast work. 😎 Subject: RE: Suggest a Change to the Websense URL Database Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:16:43 -0800 From: “Websense DB Update” <databasechange@websense.com> Hello, Thank you for writing to Websense. The sites you submitted have been reviewed and the…

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it’s nice to know that they’re not being classified as terrorist threats; that said, they do seem to be colourcoding the threats: [neo.jpl.nasa.gov]

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The UK’s Channel4 TV station has been airing a series of adverts – all of which are montages of clips from interviews with various people who star in shows that are aired on Channel4. Still with me? Good. I get the feeling that the interviews were all done to a standard script with a fixed…

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illustrated on [news.bbc.co.uk] – apt, appropriate to the headline, but quite puckering in its intensity.

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…and is available from software update. First impressions: they’ve fixed a couple of niggles, like the KeyChain Administration widget which refused to appear in my toolbar, and i look forwards to playing with the Bluetooth updates. Now all I need is a Bluetooth Sniffer for macos, and/or time to write one for myself…

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well it’s true, this website (plus the alternative .org website) has been categorised as a “HACKING” website by the people at [www.websense.com] ; this is evidenced to be my the following query that i performed on their database: [crypticide.com] …so i’ll drop them a polite note and ask them to decategorise the site, and let…

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as a summary of a comprehensive hatchet-job that TheRegister seem to have done on Itanium, this extract just appeals to me, to the point of rotfl… [www.theregister.co.uk] In its defense of HP, Illuminata went so far as to charge The Register with Itanium hate-crimes. Embracing hyperbole, they claimed that our humble reporters were “fervent” Itanic…

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Running a little late, I know, but: Marcus mailed me about this plan in the middle of last year, and sent me one of the paper copies, a Network Security Calendar themed upon spoofs of the ever-more-spoofed “motivational” posters — which are, alas, still popular in some workplaces. He’s made the calendar available at: [www.ranum.com]…

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so… this friend of mine… got her brand new BMW R1200GS on monday… which incidentally is a bike after which i like totally lust… as pictured here: [www.reisemotorrad.de] or elsewhere here; [www.reisemotorrad.de] so she got it… rode it to work and back for two days… only to find on the second day it had dumped…

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if anyone reading this really, really understands trackback and it’s application in blogging, i’d be grateful if they could please drop me a line. i think i have got the general gist of it – some means, supported by the blog software, of annotating the fact that someone is referencing your articles… …but i would…

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it’s taken a bit of perl hackery, but they are there it’ll be a day or two before i prettify them to fit with everything else

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well, i am not entirely happy with blosxom, not least for the amount of time that it takes to learn how to spell the name. chiefly my issues are with the fast-and-loose approach it takes to virtual URL pathnames – mixing and matching real filenames with virtual directory names in an apparently arbitrary manner. that…

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