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Thursday, March 18, 2004

Test Message! Yup - remember when people would send you those to test your email? I''m testing my email to blog on a new mobile computer I've set up for the trip. I hate it when I post garbage unintentionally (as opposed to the garbage I post deliberately) and I'm hundreds or thousands of miles away and have to just grit my teeth until I can get home and fix it. To make this a worthwhile post, I'll pass along a little information I've verified just now. If you have a valid free account at the Washington Post or Los Angeles Times, you can import the cookies and bookmarks from the computer you created them on with the import/export feature of IE6! I wasn't sure if this worked before because those two newspapers require you to answer an email to validate your registration and a previous attempt to transfer accounts to computers at work had failed. But now I'm sure it does. Just go to "Files," Import and Export," and copy the files to a removable device (or email as attachments) like a USB key. Then you can import them on the second computer by a similar process. It's not 100% inyuitive, because Bill asks you to "save" the bookmark,html and cookies.txt files on the second computer, but they still get their okay. I'm now reading the Washington Post editorials on my new laptop, just minutes after the transfer. while listening to "The Duke Of Prunes" from Absolutely Free. If this shows up on the blog, I'll listen to Fountains Of Wayne doing "You've Got A Bright Future In Sales." (UPDATE: It made it up there, as you can see, with a couple of typos that I'll leave in as a reminder to be more careful. The formatting didn't turn out like I expected it, but I can fix that. I still haven't got my VPN for work working, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, in fact it's a good excuse - but I'll have to have it running before I leave to keep up with work-related mail. The wireless jukebox crapped out while I was reading the WaPo, my 802.11b just doesn't have the bandwidth to play music and browse the web at the same time. While setting up the connection, I noticed 4 unprotected wireless access points in my neighborhood, all trustingly broadcasting their SSIDs. If they haven't wised up by the time I get back from Japan, I'll mess with them a little bit. Nothing malicious, mind you, just login as "admin" (the default on most routers) and see if they've changed from the default of "no password." Then I can completely control who has access to their network! Watch which MAC addresses login after the school bus comes in and block the kids' first. Wait a week and see what happens. Maybe change the admin password then if they haven't applied basic security measures and lock everybody out until they reset the router. No one appreciates teachers anymore, especially the ones from the Old School who believe experience teaches better than words, so I don't expect any kudos. If you do understand words and have a wireless router, listen to me, I am the asshole who teaches security the hard way.) 6:38:51 PM    comment []

I Can Fly   Normally, the natural boundaries of taste inhibit me from joining in on the feeding frenzy when the mighty fall. But for R Kelly I must make an exception. So here are a couple of tasty excerpts from a BBC report about the kid porn charges being dropped against him in Florida (immediately, one thinks his signature anthem “I Believe I Can Fly” would be the perfect soundtrack for a GWB aircraft carrier landing to triumphantly accept the GOP nomination in NYC on 09/11/2004 - and any tainted pixels must be airbrushed out of that image right now).   Prosecution drops R Kelly charges Prosecutors in Florida have dropped all 12 child pornography charges against R&B star R Kelly. A judge had ruled that photographs seized from the singer's home allegedly showing him with an underage girl were seized illegally. He still faces 14 charges of child pornography in the state of Illinois, stemming from a video of him allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Video of “alleged sex?” Say, shouldn’t that be an “alleged video” too?  Let’s skip down a bit in this article for the really juicy stuff. . . He has worked with the likes of Michael and Janet Jackson. . . Say No More! 4:13:00 AM    comment []