Category: General

SQL injection is an attack on computer database systems where an attacker exploits an assumption made by the programmer about the kinds of data that will be ent...

There’s a bug in Tivoli Storage Manager, where, given a set of tapes to process in order to reclaim the space occupied by expired data, it fails to comple...

In a day that needed a bit of levity, Rick points the So-Called Austin Mayor’s suggestion that some perspective is needed. Wired provides that perspective...

Adrian Holovaty has an excellent post on a fundamental way all newspaper sites need to change, in which he suggests they need to think about restructuring their...

Constitution Day is little observed. But The Poughkeepsie Journal reported today that the Trinity Episcopal Church in Fishkill, New York, will, as part of its 2...

I’ve begun to read All the Shah’s Men, after hearing Stephen Kinzer’s speech on the 1953 coup on WAMC the other day. All was fine until I reac...

We purchased some foaming hand soap the other day. Unfortunately, it stains our white laminate countertops. Then I noticed that after dispensing the soap, it dr...

I am still in the office. It was that kind of day. While I waited for the new VPN to completely install, I read that Google Talk has some nifty new features, or...

In this picture one side of the plate is lined with slices of an organically-grown tomato purchased at Stop and Shop; the other, with slices of an organically-g...

System Administrator Day is next Friday, July 28th. Don’t forget, or we’ll have to write random data over your Sarbanes-Oxley audit.

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume am...

The Poughkeepsie Journal today reported that Rhinebeck expects lots of discussion of the town’s proposed comprehensive plan. Rhinebeck is a beautiful town...

Raymond Chen asks, What happened to the traffic circle at the corner of 156th Ave NE and NE 56th Way? Apparently tort happened. A car was driving down the stree...

I loved listening to Engines of Our Ingenuity on WSHU during my morning drive. But since we’ve moved to the big house, when it’s broadcast I’m...

The latest dust-up over at Mark Pilgrim‘s place yielded some interesting product recommendations and a warning about Mail.app. Mark has switched his opera...

One of the things that Man can do — or maybe that’s Woman, since I’m not sure men learn from their mistakes — is learn from the mistakes of othe...

The U.S. Census Bureau has provided statistics on how Hurricane Katrina changed the demographics of the Gulf Coast in what the Houston Chronicle called possibly...

I sent Rick a link to what appears to be a contract for concentration camps, he passed along a Metafilter thread about Spider-man’s revealing his secret i...

Denise Howell points out that Marty Schwimmer asks some tough questions. I have not been reading Marty’s work since he asked Bloglines to stop pulling his...