From multiple servers, (medium) cross-site scripting attacks on what it looks like phpbb and (either) MamboServer and/or Joomla. Fragments follow:
Not sure if they’re related to older security fixes, but if you run both software, I’d appreciate you patch it.
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Then people can do too! But wait: I’m not stunned by Russell’s decision to switch from Mac to Windows.
I’m not particularly stunned, because this comes from the same guy who switches forth and back to any existing OS. Hey, mind MSX-DOS! Talking about credibility.
Also related: people assume I’m a Linux-freak. People also assume I’m a Windows-freak. I’m neither: as a programmer, I’d literally push myself out the marketplace if I’d be concentrating on one (sole) operating system. I love my Debian box though.
Hello 2006! Goodbye 2005! But not too fast: last night, we watched deux movies: Dark Water (2005) and Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1983).
Dark Water (starring Jennifer Connelly)
is an adaption of the Japanese movie ‘Honogurai Mizu No Soko Kara’ from the author Kôji Suzuki, the guy that also wrote both The Ring movies. However, this movie doesn’t really qualify as a (typical) Japanese horror movie: it’s more or less a thriller. Connelly should be more picky when choosing scripts.
We
were surprised to see a fly go kamikaze in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’. I noticed that this fly also made it to IMDB’s goofs section of the movie. I wonder if the actual parts afterwards (hilarity) were cut out of the frame sequence. Do I see Paul Freeman laugh there? Additionally, it reminded me of the scene in Serenity where Summer Glau (sp) claims she swallowed a bug, after being asked if she’s OK.
Flies rock.
While we’re at it, here are my predictions for 2006 in no particular order:
There. Have at it.
Almost closing off 2005, a year that mostly reminds of two events: the Tsunami’s aftermath and Hurricane Katrina. I honestly can’t think of any specific Canadian news \item that grabbed my attention (besides the usual suspects, like a snowstorm. Note to self, I need to get the pictures from Alfons’ server).
Oh. And Web 2.0. It’s huge and it was the first thing in 2005 that made me really laugh.
Am obviously
bored and have nothing else to do.
Ravenholm? Not now.
And then 
I was browsing the news photos at Yahoo and noticed this piece of artillery and I was thrown back in history, when I was a little naive younger adult who was called into military service to serve at the proud 42nd Artillery Batallion (Bravo Company plus a lot more little abbreviations I don’t remember). Yes, no joke. And that sir, in that picture, that’s not a tank, it’s an M-108.
There are a couple of fragments I wanted to share: at that time everybody who was older than 18 was ‘eligible’ to serve the Royal Dutch military, including me. I bet there were hundreds of people able to (afford to) skip the service by either pretending they weren’t qualified or by having parents with deep pockets. But the fragments first, with the saucy details:
I 
accidentally ran into this REM FAQ, which (supposedly) lists many unknown facts about the band REM. However, it misses details about Stipe’s collaborative works with (without doubt, controversial) rapper KRS-One.
Take for example the last time they worked together on an obscure album called ‘Civilization vs.Technology’ (‘H.E.A.L’): this album list so many conflicting arguments that it doesn’t surprise me that REM fans don’t want to hear about Stipe’s collaboration on the title track of that album. Which is a shame: that particular song is probably the only song worth listening to because of (both) KRS-One’s and Stipe’s well-meant concerns about the Greenhouse effect.
Not bad, if you think about that the song was produced in 1991.
I‘ve installed the ‘wp-recent-links’ plugin and officially ‘retired’ my own homebrew stuff that formed the ‘Elsewhere’ links. I’ll be working on a solution to get most of them ‘into’ wp-recent-links’ table structure. For now, I’ll be recycling some of them.
Additionally, I turned off the ‘visual’ editor of WordPress: while it looks neat, I saw no sense to use it.
Lastly, I finished Half-Life 2.
Upgrading to WordPress 2.0:
Pending your unix experience it takes between 15 – 30 minutes to upgrade.
I see that the guys over at WordPress have just released version 2.0 (originally tagged 1.6).
I’ll be analyzing and (most likely) start the ‘upgrade path’ to the latest release.
Update 10:38 PM: Done
For the people in Northern America and that teeny bit of country in Europe that celebrates this day: Happy Boxing Day. May this day fulfill all the material things you wanted for 2006. For the rest of the world, have a merry second Christmas Day, which is a day that is supposed to fulfill both material and spiritual needs. Obviously, we need more Christmas days, but I admit, that would be an expensive proposition.
Now: I’m in the process of playing Half-Life 2. While the ‘boat’ part was fun, I experienced the same effects Alfons had 1 year ago: dizzyness and particular sick to the stomach. However, I don’t think it’s the boatride that makes things worse: I felt mostly sick when I had to switch back to ‘first person’ mode to solve puzzles to open doors and gates. The ‘buggy drive’ is fun: it is actually good to have someone next to you listening to the hints and seeing the things I apparently missed. However: Half-Life 2 is brilliant. Once again it is the storyline that runs this game. The maps (like in the first Half-Life) are challenging. I do find that I run out of ammunition more frequent than I want: aiming with the controller is obviously harder than doing this with a keyboard and mouse.
Good news: We’ve transformed our home into an Almost Imperial free zone. With the latest purchase of a kitchen scale (not related to Christmas), we’ve made our kitchen (and pets) into a genuine 21st century home. In with those grams.
That said, I’d like to remind fellow Imperial cooks of the following:
1000 cubic centimeters of water = 1 liter = 1 kg.
OK, so it’s almost the end of 2005, and everybody and their dog is summarizing this year, right? Google? Check. MSN? Check. Yahoo! Check. Wikipedia. Uh, half check. BBC news. Yay! You get the gist.
I’ve seen only 2 episodes of ‘Cornergas’ and I’ve no idea yet what to think of it. It’s not overly funny but then, maybe I just don’t get the humour. But hey, at least you can download free signed pictures of your favourite cast.
