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Seems like one of the handlers has been cooped up for too long over at the SANS Internet Storm Center. From the latest post on some more 0-day, there’s this little gem: {% codeblock %}0day it to the front, uh-uh-uh{% endcodeblock %} {% codeblock %}0day it to the back, uh-uh-uh{% endcodeblock %} {% codeblock %}0day to the right, 0day to the left{% endcodeblock %} {% codeblock %}0day it up, up all night, uh-uh-uh{% endcodeblock %} Wow - That is beautiful and touching. ;)

The new video store is one of the reasons I want a new iPod, and apparently it’s fairly successful already, generating $1 million in revenue thus far by selling 125,000 movies in the first week. The ability to quickly purchase and download a movie, have a storage medium, and then even have the ability to play it on the TV is so slick and enticing. I personally have my media setup wired to be able to stream movies straight from my computer as well as music. I’ve always had all my media on my computer and this ability to push it into the living room is very sexy. Apple is cashing in on the “I want it and I want it whenever I damn well please” mentality of todays consumers of TV and video. Want to watch Lost? Why bother taking a specific chunk out of your day that you have to set aside and miss other things - just download it and watch it whenever…and wherever you want to. Way to go Apple - it will be interesting to see how well others can play catch-up. ...

It was kind of neat to see this post about rootkits and virtualization. They’re reasoning, correctly, that if they’re on a virtual pc, they’re being studied and won’t play nicely. As the author mentions, I'm not surprised but it's kind of slick to see the author's detecting the virtualization software and glibly do nothing. So now the question is, what needs to be done or what can be done to prevent that? Sounds like a nice project for a rainy Sunday afternoon in a coffee shop somewhere...

I must look really helpful or something, lately. Today alone, I got asked for directions three times. Once while I was walking down the street to the tunes on my iPod (I reallllllly want a new one), once while just about to walk into my place, and once at a red light while driving around. I don’t know what it is…but I hope I was able to steer them all in the right direction! It’s been so long since I’ve been home, I’m a little rusty! Speaking of which…there goes my phone, I think it’s Seattle calling! ;)

In other news of the stupid… people are idiots. Some 23-year old is suing Starbucks to the tune of $114 million because of a coupon for a free drink that they had to cancel because it got distributed across the net. I’ll admit Starbucks wasn’t smart to email a coupon to their employees and only expect it to get emailed to close friends and family, but come on…a class-action lawsuit?! Grow up and get a real job to support yourself instead of abusing some frivolous lawsuit.

Have I mentioned before how much I hate United? Oh yes, I HAVE! Well I had another wonderful experience recently. I showed up at the airport only to find my flight delayed 4 hours. 4 HOURS! That and nearly every other flight on United’s boards were delayed. There were people getting on an 8pm flight that had been in the airport since 9am that morning. I’m sure most of Southwest’s flights were on time… I don’t know what it is about United that they can’t operate their airline in Chicago without having major delays nearly every time I fly them. ...

Oh, and by the way, there is finally an OTR Plugin for Trillian. Thank you, kittyfox! I have been waiting so long for this as a lot of friends use Trillian and Secure-IM but my co-workers use OTR and the Windows OTR Proxy can’t proxy through another proxy (did that make sense?). So finally, I can use my home proxy for all my network traffic and use OTR. w00t.

I’ve been watching with anticipation as Windows PowerShell has gone from its infancy (which was pretty weak, in my opinion) to a tool that could really change how I use Windows. Many of you know that I am a command-line junkie. If there is a way to do something via the command-line, I will find it and I will script it. That’s just how I am. One thing that’s always frustrated me about Windows, however, is the shoddy access to the event viewer. The GUI is just unbearably slow when you have thousands of events and you’re trying to scroll to a particular day’s log. So I was really happy today to see this post about DateTime Utility Functions over on the Powershell blog that, with a little one-line function, makes getting recent events as simple as a little ...

I came across some documentation for my car and realized that in the past year, I have only driven my car 1,000 miles. Talk about retaining value. It's a 1999, and it doesn't even have 40,000 miles on it yet. Of course, it helps that when I acquired it in 2002, it only had 800 miles on it (thanks Uncle C!). I guess traveling for life does have its benefits to some degree... ...

I was watching the travel channel today and there was already a touching commercial celebrating Steve Irwin’s life. What a bummer…I even just recently dressed up as him at a costume party a couple months back. Kudos for how he lived his life with enthusiasm and pursued his dreams and love.