FFEJWORLD:

this page is more importent then even i think: four of the top pages linking ot me are from verisign’s sitefinder, like this one.

OS X10.2.8 was pulled off the update server almost immediately, lots of problems with ethernet and batteries. i’m running it just fine, except it trashed my permissions worse then a usual update.

criticise microsoft, lose your job: Dan Geer gets fired by security firm @Stake for a report critical of M$. the report called M$ software hazardous to security and the economy. this wasn’t a work related report, but one he co authored for the Computer and Communications Industry Association. the Register weighs in.

jetblue in a nut shell: Jetblue airlines handed over customer records and info to a contractor working on a terrorism database. this just days before the Gov shut the TIA down for good. the army aparently used the data. news.com weighs in. original wired story. so TIA is over, and private contractors are doing it instead, with gov pressure on database holders to give up the data…

Neil found this gem: implementing tcp/ip over bongo drums

UPDATED: OS X 10.2.8 updater released.

we’re back from our wedding vacation in Skokie. Ben flew in for the main event, and i stayed over at his parent’s place with him and Richie. Ben’s parent;s were in Door County, and missed the big show. Dean took off immediately afterwords to visit friends in Indiana, they got back last night. (they’re thinking about throwing a real reception/party in november). We spent some watching the food channel and DVD’s and some time geeking, thanks to Ben my laptop can know talk to my cell phone via Bluetooth, and I finally got the iBook completely cleaned up. Now comes the arduous job of reloading all the personal software that makes it MY laptop, and not a generic. Ben left an hour ago for California, where Ariana Huffington is running against Arnold–and blogiing it herself, she also on Friendster. I got on the train and headed to Filter for bandwidth to finish the updating/personalization effort. already i’ve got the line choked with a whole bunch of OS X updates (new Java!) and iApps updates i didn’t have locally archived. gotta make a local archive later.

All in all it was a wonderful vacation from reality, and a great visit with Ben and Richie (who cooked up a storm). Kind of a let down to be sleeping under bushes again.

I will be down helping Katherine manana, and will be shooting some stuff for jim as well. Other then that, the plan is to hunker down this week and try to get some feeble job.

i haven’t gotten my news reader reconfigured yet, so there won’t be any news today. But thanks again to Ben, I’ll be updating more regularly.

(spoke too soon: a fed cop on the Versign Sitefinder debacle.)

(former Senator Max Cleland on the administration draft dodgers and the war in Iraq: Welcome to Viet Nam.)

(Neil Gaiman will be interviewed on Slashdot! get over there to submit your questions, Jerry…)

(while your there check out Ivan Sutherland’s latest chip interconnect work, intel and Sony sucking up to the riaa and mpaa with new pushes for digital rights restriction, and more on the versiign debacle).

(Chris Galvin anounced he’s retiring as Motorola CEO. and OS X 10.2.8 updater is now availible from the system preferences software update.)

Manana is the first day of fall.

the gadgeteers does a trade show, and are sevrally dissapointed.

walking down belmont i saw a man dressed as sanjuro walking toward me. he was an older honky with aviator frames and salt and pepper beard/musache. even had an old pier one imports bokken.

trying to update by cell phone again.

keep those links and comments coming…

Congratulations to Dean and Sharon on their engagement/upcoming marriage. The wedding is Friday, 8:30am at the Skokie court house. i’ll be there, but i don’t think they allow cameras anymore…

congratulations to Heidi on her new home.

Tim’s birthday is tuesday, 9ish at the nexus of evil.

i’ve just put my parents on the way to my nephew’s bar mitzvah.

Ben was right: last thanksgiving i poked fun at him and chided him for getting a Palm Tungsten-T. i was wrong, Ben was as usual, years ahead of me. playing with the Ericsson has convinced me that the future of phones is a piconet. it solves the problems of trying to write notes on your phone while talking on it, it solves the problem of having a decent PDA that’s a bad (sounding/signal detecting) phone, it solves the problem of proprietary cables or headsets, it solves the problem of having a great phone with a bad interface and for people me it would conceivably solve the problem of having a too small phone in the future. i’m networking and dialing my Ericsson with infrared from my Palm, Ben is doing the same with Blluetooth, and using it for his headset. because of the proprietary headset connector, i can’t even use my headset with the Ericsson. infrared only works line of sight, i have to take the phone out and put it on the table in front of the Palm to dial, with Bluetooth, which is radio, i could leave the phone in my pocket or on my belt, and dial or network. Bluetootha and infrared really eat up the batterys, so i have to replace the ultra slim that came with my phone with a ultra high capacity.

and kudos to Ben for leading the way…

this is for Ben (and anyone else who either uses Gallery, or doesn’t use iView MediaPro): iPhotoToGallery

i have a new phone an Ericsson R520m, it works, the number is the same as the old one.

it’s a collosol step backwards for me: when you’ve spnt anytime in the land of smart phones be they visorphones or treos, or samsung and kyocera palm os based phones, getting a normal phone is a hude step backwards in ease of use and featuritis. more on this later.

i still haven’t figured out how i’m going to get the mail using it. there are a number of options.

my parents leave sunday for my nephew’s bar mitzvah, sans me, which is another bone of contention between us, and now my sister.

i’ve given up trying to get the laptop repaired this week. will save it for next week.