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Archive for February, 2006

I’m home!

Monday, February 27th, 2006

I spent the last 2 weeks on Vancouver Island in the wonderful cabin of my colleague John and his wife Cordelia. I ate regular meals every day and worked 12-16 hour days.

Today was our big demo to our funders in NY and apparently it went very well. A lot of code was written in the last two weeks and I even got animations and timelines working. Amazing.

It was a wonderful personal growth period, a confidence builder, a learning experience and I’m very excited about the status of our project.

Many thanks to John and Cordelia for their hospitality and friendship!

Security Hole in Safari - Take action now!

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

A flaw has been found in Safari if you have open “safe” files after downloading checked. Any site can use this flaw to attack you, just by visiting it.

To secure yourself, go to Safari Menu, Choose Preferences, click General, and uncheck “open “safe” files after downloading”

You’ll now have to double click widgets, sit files etc to open them, which is no big deal compared to losing every file in your documents folder.

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