March, 4, 2003 archives

go vote!

the brain works in mysterious ways. i was listing to music by the dirty dozen brass band for quite some time before i consciously remembered today was mardi gras. in fact, i was most of the way through the live: mardi gras in montreaux album.

when yet another security flaw in sendmail was revealed, i went through that momentary gloaty period where i'm happy i'm not responsible for any machines running sendmail. then the system updater kicked in on my desktop to download apple's mac os x update to fix the bundled sendmail. oh well, at least the machine is firewalled off and doesn't receive mail.

at the time, i made a joke about it now being bind's turn for a security flaw to turn up. oops, it happened sooner than i could have expected.

sendmail and bind : worm propogation :: microsoft outlook : virus propogation

here's a top-50 list of science fiction and fantasy books. i've read ten of them. the top arthur c. clarke book to make the list is childhood's end at #7.

i'm on a netflix-queue-chewing roll. i finally watched rashomon. what can i say that hasn't already been said? kurosawa and mifune go together like peanut butter and chocolate, although i don't think this is their best pairing. i'm very partial to high and low.