Courtesy of Tara Calishain I can proudly report that 24 .com, 2 .fr, 4.net, 10 .nz, 30.org, 10.uk and 20.us web sites point to this site!

It was a sad day for my inbox yesterday as Randy Cassingham announced that he was closing his RandysRandom mailing list – but he still has his excellent publications This is True (short weird-but-true stories with off-the-wall commentary), Stella Awards (astounding cases of real-life lawsuits that makes the “McDonald’s Coffee Lady” look like the most reasonable person on the planet), Heroic Stories (short, inspiring, true stories of people going out of their ways to create profound positive impacts on others — without being sappy, to sentimental, or religious)
All three are free, worth signing up for, you won’t get spam or pressurised to buy anything (although you can sign up for a premium sub to This Is True and get a Premium Readers only special edition in between the standard issues)

I’m off to see yFriday on Saturday!

How shortsighted is this? UCSB (some American university) has banned windows2000 from their college network due to the problems they had last term with security. Instead they recommend replacing it with XP home….talk about crippling your pc! Why they don’t just get a proper policy set up which insists that all pc’s attached to the network are uptodate with patches and kill the net connection for those pc’s which aren’t. Not sure how you’d physically do that seeing as though the pc’s are the students own (I presume) but then again, how are they going to detect what OS they are running? If they can detect that, then i’d expect them to detect the patch level. Alternatively they could do some port filtering – but that could cause more problems….I guess if people use linux, then they are going to have even more problems with misconfigured servers with major security holes in it as its a lot harder to naildown a linux box if you dont know what you are doing….
Ironically the site that hosts the information is running Windows 2000 according to Netcraft