One drink too many and a joke gone too far.
A personal blog by writer and artist Jason Hodges.
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As for which one looks better... neither. I'm tired of Google's white page. It's white. It's too bright at night. If they can let me move stuff around on their ig page, why can't they let me change the background color. As for Yahoo, it's probably the most cluttered website ever created. It's horrible. They need to split up into five or twelve different sites. But at least Yahoo will let me create my own Yahoo page and customize it slightly. There's actually more than a few different ways of customizing it, but they haven't changed in years.
Actor Chris Penn, brother of Sean Penn, was found dead Tuesday at a condominium near the beach in Santa Monica, police said.
This program from Steve Gibson at grc.com will test a Windows system to see if the machine is vulnerable to the WMF Exploit.
"Steve Gibson has been working with the WMF vulnerability and is now convinced that this is an intentional backdoor into Windows added by Microsoft!"
Steve's website is grc.com. He says he'll know more in a week, but right now, he says the WMV exploit was put into Windows on purpose. Steve suggested that maybe this was put into Windows on purpose so that even if a user has turned off everything they could, Microsoft could still run code on a user's computer.
I think a bad programmer who worked on Windows may have put this one in as his own personal backdoor into Windows. Even if that isn't the case, I bet that's what Microsoft will say even if they admit to this. With that said, Steve does think Microsoft put it in themselves and the discovery was an accident. He's a smart guy. He knows how these things work. He discovered all of this because Microsoft did not provide a fix for older versions of Windows. If they had, he wouldn't have been looking for a fix for those computers himself. And to find a fix, he had to figure out how the exploit worked. And when he did that, he came to the conclusion that it was on purpose by Microsoft.
And just to make me feel better when I do use Windows, when asked if there could be more backdoors in Windows, Steven said, "Yes."
I just had a thought. This is in all versions of Windows. Is it likely that there's a bad programmer who has worked on every version of Windows? That would be Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. That's a lot of code. If there are programmers who worked on every version, it's got to be only a handful, right?
Boy, I hope this isn't correct, but it probably is.
Somebody has taken the audio from a Windows Vista demo and done everything described in the demo on a Mac running OS X. It is disturbingly word for word what the M$ demo guy is saying. I wonder if M$ will ever realize they can save money by just buying copies of OS X and just re-selling them with M$ stickers on them.
There is a really bad problem with all versions of Windows. All versions. Previously, there was a fix for the problem from Microsoft that unregistered a DLL. The problem was that, according to Steve Gibson of GRC.com, the M$ fix was "lame." The M$ fix broke a few things and didn't do a good job of fixing the problem.
This new fix does not break things and actually fixes the problem. So re-register the DLL first (if you applied M$'s fix) and then install this patch. When M$ patches this problem for real, you should uninstall the patch.
Unfortunately, this patch does not fix Windows 95 or 98, but neither did M$'s DLL fix. Sorry 95 and 98 folks.
Easy to use instructions are on the page linked above. You can also get detailed information on this problem. And this problem has exploded on the internet. And what is this problem? Without doing anything other than looking at website, opening any e-mail, or using your instant messaging software, a bad person can put anything they want on your computer. And it does not matter which web browser you use or version of Windows. So please apply this fix now.
From ABC 33/40 E-Warn:
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
737 AM CST SUN JAN 1 2006
ALZ011>015-017>050-011930-
AUTAUGA-BARBOUR-BIBB-BLOUNT-BULLOCK-CALHOUN-CHAMBERS-CHEROKEE-
CHILTON-CLAY-CLEBURNE-COOSA-DALLAS-ELMORE-ETOWAH-FAYETTE-GREENE-HALE-
JEFFERSON-LAMAR-LEE-LOWNDES-MACON-MARENGO-MARION-MONTGOMERY-PERRY-
PICKENS-PIKE-RANDOLPH-RUSSELL-SHELBY-ST CLAIR-SUMTER-TALLADEGA-
TALLAPOOSA-TUSCALOOSA-WALKER-WINSTON-
737 AM CST SUN JAN 1 2006
...SEVERE WEATHER EXPECTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY...
A DEVELOPING UPPER LEVEL STORM SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY MOVING ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN ROCKIES AND INTO THE SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL PLAINS. AS THIS
SYSTEM CROSSES THE PLAINS TODAY...A WARM FRONT WILL LIFT NORTHWARD
ACROSS THE STATE...PLACING ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA IN THE WARM SECTOR
WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR TWO ROUNDS OF SEVERE STORMS...LATER TODAY AND
TONIGHT.
LATER TODAY...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG TO SEVERE...
ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE PEAK HEATING THIS AFTERNOON IN A
VERY RICH MARINE LAYER AIRMASS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE
COUNTY WARNING AREA. LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WIND GUSTS, AND TORNADOES
WILL BE POSSIBLE IN THIS FIRST ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER...WHICH SHOULD
WEAKEN AS WE LOSE DAYTIME HEATING.
HOWEVER...THE MOST IMPRESSIVE UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS WITH THIS STORM
SYSTEM WILL NOT ARRIVE UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. THIS
WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL ALABAMA SUNDAY EVENING INTO MONDAY. DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND ISOLATED TORNADOES ALL LOOK
POSSIBLE LATE SUNDAY EVENING...BEGINNING AROUND 9 PM FOR WESTERN
ALABAMA...AND LASTING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEASTERN
ALABAMA. AT THIS TIME...THE AREA MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THE WORST
DAMAGING WEATHER WITH THIS SECOND ROUND OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE
ALONG AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 65 CORRIDOR.
THIS STORM SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME DANGEROUS VERY QUICKLY.
ALL OF CENTRAL ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND MONITOR THIS SYSTEM
VERY CLOSELY AS IT CONTINUES TO DEVELOP.
STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO...OR OTHER LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR
FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
BIRMINGHAM.
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From a Hole in the Sky
13 Stories of Horror, Madness, and Religion make up this dark-kudzu collection. A city run by angels with demanding burial rites. A white van jostling with clowns and warnings about sleep. A weeping pastor with a dead man in a boat. Homicide, Suicide, Jesus, and The Devil. To join a family, you're going to need some stitches. Kids today on their way to cut grass and play cowboys and injuns'. A hole in the ground where poor John Henry met a foul ending. And unholy birthing machines with a chosen one. All this and more. Where do bad things come from? They come FROM A HOLE IN THE SKY.
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A blog of the current forecasts, watches, and warnings for the state of Alabama. The posts are automatically generated from E-forecast and E-warn e-mails from my local ABC Network Affiliate, ABC 33/40. The images are from the National Weather Service. The site will refresh itself every ten minutes.
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