Chris posted about an amazing collection of space pics of earth. I now have this picture as my backdrop.
Month: January 2004
We watched Daddy Day Care from a video last night which was actually pretty funny. The annoying thing is the quality of video vs DVD is appalling.
Hmmm – Microsoft have broken their rule of monthly patch updates this morning with two new critical updates. One for XP Media Center edition (unlikely to be in a business and whose knowledge base article doesn’t exist yet.) and another for SQL Server 2000 desktop engine on Windows Server 2003
Chris pointed out that there is a slight problem with 2.6661 and MT-Blacklist in that there is no throttling due to the order of the plugins overwriting the new functionality. Thats a bit scary as last night I was reading up on (and saw) the effects of a in-the-wild hacking tool for MT and it looks like blacklist may not stop this. I’m hesitant to go into details here but email me if you want more information.
The long awaited calendar arrived yesterday (whilst I was out of the office), the day after I sent a snotty email to computerworld asking for a refund, which I am pleased to say they did that afternoon, and I said I would refuse delivery of the goods. However I wasn’t in the office yesterday, and the receptionist had forgotten that I had told her to not accept the shipment – as it was so long ago – so I emailed ComputerWorld saying I now had them eventually and asked what they wanted me to do with them. Ever so nicely they told me to keep them with their compliments, sorry for the delay and please frequent them again. I don’t think I’ll buy from them again but it was nice to get them for free, but then again I don’t know what they would have done with them by the time they arrived back at their depot 2 months from now!
Thanks to the girlie matters tips and tricks I now have more than 5 comments, pings and entries displayed in each section of MT’s menu by making three small edits to lib/MT/App/CMS.pm (which now means yet another file I need to NOT overwrite when upgrading MT!)
Now upgraded MT to 2.661 (which meant I had to re-edit MT.pm – thank heavens for MT’s search function!)
Blocked the ip address 62.213.67.122 from this site this evening after checking my MT logs. Several times today it’s been used to try and spam this site, but the blacklister got them first 🙂 Its a site in Russia so I doubt they’ve got real concerns looking at this site.
I solved my Calendar issues with Outlook 2k3 this morning. Not sure exactly what the solution was, but by logging onto a downlevel client (98 with office 2000) and then logging into my mailbox as me AND changing permissions for one user from reviewer to author (which I needed to do anyway) I then found that everyone else can now view the calendar….and its only taken 15 days to crack it. Now the annoying thing is that I don’t know what caused it or which of the two things fixed it.
and you get a rapidly spreading virus – or so the news would have us believe. We’ve had one instance so far with the subject “Hi”, with an attachment of “kjywtjhgnbw.exe”. The body of the email contains Test =) lfcdlfaorget
–Test, yep. Now if you got an email like this would you click on the .exe file?