MacPhoenix: BlogAlways the blogsmaid, never the blogSong XXVIII- June 26, 2008 The temple has fallen into disrepair It&8217;s sagging and short of breath The clergy are muttering kind words to themselves Holy invocations fall leaden in front of their feet The pews are all empty The audience left and coughs echo flat on the marble The temple is greying into morbid disuse It&8217;s puffy and soft in the middle It never ran swiftly nor sprung from the bed And now it just moans about this ache and that The incense is burned and the body is...http://www.macphoenix.com/creative/blog/archives/2008/06/song_xxviii.html Acid Trip to the Past- June 20, 2008 I&8217;m not one to think that things were better in my childhood days. The 70s, for all those who choose not to&8212;or are too young to&8212;remember, sucked. Really. The 80s sucked, too. Sure, we&8217;re all nostalgic for big hair and men in shorty-shorts, but except for an underground music scene that would pay off dividends in the 90s and beyond, my generation was the first to find their world more difficult to prosper than the previous generations in America. But, wait, I come here not to.http://www.macphoenix.com/creative/blog/archives/2008/06/acid_trip_to_the_past.html It bears repeating- June 3, 2008 Turn off Safari&8217;s Open &8220;safe&8221; files after downloading under Safari-Preferences. There&8217;s a program out there in the wild that can download and install itself if that checkbox is checked. It&8217;s possible that the payload is helped along by the Flash vulnerability; I&8217;m not sure, but keep in mind that many websites are using Flash ads that are served from 3rd party servers. Even if you trust the site, the ads may be from nefarious sources. There isn&8217;t really an..http://www.macphoenix.com/creative/blog/archives/2008/06/it_bears_repeating.html |