Not Switched to Firefox yet?
If you’re running Windows XP SP2 and still using Internet Explorer then this patch is for you - in fact, it’s for everyone on XP…
In fact, with Christmas so close, I’ll bet many of you have been buying stuff online without realising there’s a gaping hole in the IE security relating to Secure transactions - you know, the ones that start https:// and put that pretty little padlock down on the taskbar.
There’s a new bug in town, and it’s a really nasty one. - Secunia have issued This Advisory relating to this serious fault, along with a demonstration page
Microsoft
have now released a patch for their firewall software to assist you - but the general advice is to disable running of ActiveX controls and set your internet security settings to "high"…
My advice is to do that, install Firefox, then use it instead.
White Christmas Anyone?
According to the BBC, you can now guarantee a white Christmas - even if only in your back garden
Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4108887.stm
At least it’s better than "houseblinging" (or having vast numbers of illuminated and animated Christmas decorations on the outside of your house)
New blog Engine
Following some techical problems (mainly with posting links) with the old blog engine, I’ve upgraded to a new tool - and migrated all the old blog content.
The eagle eyed amongst you will notice that the datestamps on old comments didn’t make it across, but as far as I know, everything else did!
The Armless Dragon
Just wanted to do a quick post relating to our work Christmas party
last night - all I have to say is this - if you’re looking for a nice
place to eat in Cardiff, the food at the "Armless Dragon" is superb, and it was a very enjoyable meal.
The Future of Christmas
Sunday’s Grand Avenue comic highlights the possible future of department store Santas in this modern world of cost-cutting and pushing for efficienct and cost effective service delivery… (and there’ll be less assults and lawsuits against Santa’s too)
Firefox = 10%?
Well, those folks over at Mozilla are eyeing up a 10% market share for their new FireFox Browser over the next year.
Now this is not unreachable - they’re already at around 8% (higher if you read more technical websites, where the number of firefox users has rocketed as more faults have been found in IE)
I found the story over on Yahoo News. I can’t post a direct URL as unfortunately there’s a problem with the current version of bMachine (the software this blog runs on) - I’m currently preparing to migrate this blog over to another platform. [@more@]
Humbug (or Carol Singing)
Now, I had a rant a couple of months ago about Trick-Or-Treat, now it’s the turn of carol singers.
Now, Firstly, I want to say this - I have no objection to groups of people WHO CAN SING going door to door singing carols to raise money for good causes.
Now, according to Wordnet, a Christmas Carol is a joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ, so groups of tone-deaf teenagers singing (and I use that word loosly) such "classics" as "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", "Rudolf the red nosed Reindeer" and "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" then expecting you to hand over some cash for having them harass you in your own home is not "Carol Singing" on two counts, firstly, as those songs have no religious content whatsoever, they cannot be called "Carols" - secondly, the noise these groups of kids produce can in no way be described as "singing".
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