Windows Security
Microsoft has two new patches up. If you use Windows Media Player or Internet Explorer you should head over there to get them.
Note, I only use IE to talk to non standard web sites like many of Microsoft’s.
Via Sugerfused.
Daily Archives: October 4, 2003
Nemo Found, Nemo Stolen
A while back, as some of you may remember, I posted this picture of Nemo.
It was linked by a number of folks: some linked to my post, some used the picture and provided the usual courteous acknowledgement but several others linked the picture directly from my server on to their bulletin board systems without the courtesy of an acknowledgement and generated hundreds of unacknowledged downloads.
So, enough is enough, I am breaking the link these folks are using. I apologize for any incovenience to the rest of you. The link to the original post is still good…just the link to the picture has been changed.
The 2003 Ignoble Prizes
One of the great things about the blogosphere is how many things even a modest reader can learn about that never make their way to network news, fair and balanced fox, your local paper, etc.
The most recent for me is the Ignoble Prize which has been presented since 1991:
Every Ig Nobel Prize winner has done something that first makes people LAUGH, then makes them THINK. Technically speaking, the Igs honor people whose achievements “cannot or should not be reproduced.”
The The Apostropher’s favorites of 2003 are listed here and my personal favorite for the last two years is the 2002 Ignoble Prize in Economics:
The executives, corporate directors, and auditors of Enron, Lernaut & Hauspie [Belgium], Adelphia, Bank of Commerce and Credit International [Pakistan], Cendant, CMS Energy, Duke Energy, Dynegy, Gazprom [Russia], Global Crossing, HIH Insurance [Australia], Informix, Kmart, Maxwell Communications [UK], McKessonHBOC, Merrill Lynch, Merck, Peregrine Systems, Qwest Communications, Reliant Resources, Rent-Way, Rite Aid, Sunbeam, Tyco, Waste Management, WorldCom, Xerox, and Arthur Andersen, for adapting the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world. [NOTE: all companies are U.S.-based unless otherwise noted.]