I received this beautiful gift from a co-worker. What a great gift – completely unexpected, but wow. He highly recommends Bali Island as a vacation spot :). He’s working at getting into the UW Professional Master’s Program and I hope he makes it in, though if he does it’ll mean fewer trips to Bali for …
Monthly Archives: February 2006
Apple Safari Browser Automatically Executes Shell Scripts
Wow – you’d think Apple would be looking to avoid problems like this after all the problems Microsoft has had with similar features. In typical Mac fashion though, you don’t even need to hack a file to produce this exploit – the Mac will helpfully disguise your malicious script for you if you give it …
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Almost Live!
This show should still be used for educating people to Seattle. I highly recommend clicking on the Ballard Driving Academy skit. In College our dorm floor generated a Lame List (a sketch on Almost Live!) everyweek – I think it was a guy from Eastern Washington that thought it up… "The program had quite an enthusiastic …
Microsoft Jargon
I don’t use any of these words, do I ? Microsoft Jargon. Some of these words I don’t even know how to express their meaning accurately to people outside of Microsoft. Like "Build", "Ask", "Code Complete", "OOF", "Ping", "Quality Bar", "RTM", and "Slipping".
PDFCreator
Found a program that allows printing to PDF – next office will have this, but this is cool. A bit more general purpose than the funky MS Office Printer TIFF format. SourceForge.net: PDFCreator
Solve problems by writing a note to yourself | 43 Folders
43 Folders had a great tip that I’ve used myself unknowningly several times – thought I’d pass it along. The one line summary: The funny thing I eventually realized was that I could and often did find the solution to my problem — part way through writing the email in which I was asking for …
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IE7 Beta 2 Available
In case you haven’t read about it elsewhere already, Beta 2 of IE7 is available. I installed it on one of my machines at work and so far am enjoying it. No issues yet. Not quite sure I want to install it on our main home machine or my laptop on which I do most of my …