RasterWeb!From Wired: How Much Hack Info Is Too Much?
…a bit of programming code embedded in a Web page can reformat site visitors’ hard drives, deleting all files stored on the affected drive. The exploit affects users running Microsoft Internet Explorer browser versions 5.5 or 6.0.
Ready to give up IE yet? ;)
See Serious Internet Explorer Defect for more info.
We’re on our way to completing the RSS 2.0 feed for this site. So for now we’re replacing the old feed with the new. If anyone has a problem with that, let me know. We considered keeping the 0.91 feed around, but probably won’t unless someone asks for it. What does this mean to you? Well, you can actually read the stuff here using your aggregator there. Seems to work ok in NetNewsWire and AmphetaDesk so far. Thanks (as always) to diveintomark, which provided much useful information on the format…
During this transition period, there may be breakage. There may be times things don’t validate. We apologize for this. Still, we’re probable doing better than most large corporations in respect to following in web standards.
We got to watch Star Wars: Attack of the Clones on the Big TV yesterday. Very cool. I know some people didn’t like this episode, but I surely did. I mean, it’s Star Wars dammit! I couldn’t stop from laughing when Yoda engaged in a light sabre battle though, amusing for sure.
I had heard a few comments about how Bill Gates’ contribution to India wasn’t entirely based on his humanitarian generosity… That makes this really interesting:
Tux Fights Bux for the Soul of India. Someone at work recently said that they believe Bill Gates is the devil himself. I won’t comment on that on myself.
A most excellent look at validation from the Daring Fireball. Personally I end up writing only XHTML nowadays if I can help it, which is XML, and should be valid XML, so I mainly just check for my documents being well formed XML, and use my own common sense to come as close to possible at making them valid, and then test them with the W3C validator. It works well enough for me. (Of course I don’t use BBEdit anymore…)