November 20, 2002 - Wednesday

Yay! So like.. news.. and.. like.. stuff. So! Yeah. I got a new printer. W00t! Wide format color baby! Soon, I plan to start selling every print (Xara print anyway) on my gallery for sale! I also plan to do custom art calendars! I might even offer print services to artists who wish to make mass production high quality prints to sell, like at cons! But that's in the future. Dunno when. But soon. Why the future and not now? Because. My printer is still sitting in a box on the floor behind me. =} I haven't unpacked it yet. Why, you may ask, is my printer sitting there? Because, I reply. I've been busy busy setting up... my my NEKOBOX CAFEPRESS STORE! Whee! OK, I know some of you hate Cafe Press, but it's the easiest I have for now. If enough of you want me to start selling more products like that, I'm pondering the idea of making and selling my own shirts, for cheaper! It'd be an investment, of course, but I have to see if there's demand. So please, supply demand! =^.^= Hmm.. what's news in other news? Well, I plan to start Otherworld very soon. I've said this before, haven't I? =^^;; Well, I mean it this time. Why? Because.. uh... look behind you! Flying monkey! *runs*

[^Young^] - 11:10 PM PST

Yeah, I'm a lame butt and haven't posted in awhile. I haven't been hanging out in the forum either. Please kick me. Verbally, of course... Anyway, I've been pretty busy as of late, with school, work, and rehersal for my play. My play opened last weekend, and went well, though we really had no audience. The most we had was about 40 people on Saturday night. Every other night was 10 or 20, which is kinda lame. But we still performed out hearts out, and that's what matters. I'm hoping we get more of an audience this weekend. Lupen is darn near broke, and we're not going to be putting on many more plays if we keep getting such low turn out. So, this leads to my obvious pimp: Please, if you're in the Santa Cruz area, and would like to see a show Thursday, Friday, or Saturday night this weekend, come out and support us! It's a great show: The Tom Stoppard Festival, with three one act plays, all of which are very funny. I'm in The Real Inspector Hound (which I did last year), and there's also The Boundary, and After Magritte (which is insanely funny... to me at least). It's at the Actor's Theater in Downtown SC, at 1001 Center St. Tickets are a little pricey, $10 for students and seniors, $12 for regular. If you're in the mood, and the area, pop on down. ^^ In other news: I'M ON A T-SHIRT!!!! O_o ... go buy it. ^^

[^e^] - 9:34 AM PST

November 21, 2002 - Thursday

Alright, consolidation time. Reported a huge security hole two days ago: This rant. Briefly, IE has a huge hole. Read about it here and click this link to see if you're vunlerable. If you are vulnerable, Windows Help and a game of Minesweeper should start. Then a new hole I found about today. There is an ActiveX control that can make IE and IIS to run any code in the system. Microsoft's solution is to upload a new copy for you to replace the old ActiveX control. However, there is *one* problem in this scenario. Because the original 'bad' code is signed by Microsoft, a hostile website or email can send the old ActiveX code around. This acts like a stealth virus if you ever decided to 'trust Microsoft' signed programs. The solution to this problem is to not trust Microsoft and review each update your system suggests, especially if it comes from an email or a non-Microsoft source. I don't know how to explain the magnitude of this problem, it's so bad, but I can give an example. Microsoft sign's all it's updates to verify that the update is 'good'. An analogy is a UPS delivery-person's brown uniform, especially if they have a package under their arm. So you give that person a little trust because they have the appearance of being a UPS person. This bad ActiveX code is a little like a person getting fired from UPS; they were once trustworthy, but have done something bad to disabuse this trust, so they were fired. However, they still have their old uniform, so they can still go around to random houses with an empty white box under their arm, knock on doors, and have people open them and come out, in doing so leaving their house and their person vulnerable. All UPS can do at that point is to say, "Don't trust UPS delivery-people, unless you're expecting a package, and even then have them confirm the package before you open the door." This is essentially what Microsoft is saying: "Don't trust us any more." This bug affects various versions of IE and IIS, which means web hosting companies, ftp and file servers, home computers, and personal web servers.

[^Louis^] - 8:15 AM PST

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