Weekend Thoughts
// January 18th, 2008 // Random Thoughts, Video
It looks like we may get some snow this weekend! It seems like the Raleigh, NC forecasters always get it wrong, but this time it looks like they may be right.
- Some important MySpace news you may not be aware of. There is a backdoor vulnerability that allows anyone to use a specially constructed URL to access the photo gallery of private profiles on MySpace. Underage users are being specifically targetted (yuck…). If you have an underage user (under the age of 16) with photos in their gallery, I advise you to shut down the profile until MySpace fixes the problem. At least remove the pictures. The story from Wired News says that there are sites popping up right now that allow anyone to enter a MySpace user id number and then view their gallery. Creepy. Stay informed, parents!
- I discovered a cool blog this week. If you are at all involved in maintaining your church’s website, I strongly suggest checking out “Heal Your Church’s Website“. He gives good practical advice with a sense of humor. He also regularly takes a look at particularly bad church sites and does (respectful) reviews of them with comments open. Cool stuff.
- I’ve reached Zen status as a geek. Our desktop computer crashed this week and I didn’t have a valid copy of Windoze to put back on it. So I installed Ubuntu Linux on it without a hitch. It’s liberating to be free from Microsoft. Heather was totally unimpressed (except for the “this is free” part), but thankfully I still have a few geek friends who are impressed. ;-)
- The house selling saga continues… Still no action on the contingency buyer’s house, but we do have some real interest from someone who looked at our house this week. The word is that if they do make an offer, they will want to move in TWO WEEKS. Yikes.
- Here’s a really cool video that will be hard for me to convince you to watch, but you should. They excavated a massive ant colony after filling it with concrete. It’s amazing. Check it out.
[tags]youtube, ants, you tube, MySpace, security, ubuntu, linux, church websites[/tags]
Ubuntu is a great operating system, and yes it will turn you into a true geek monk.. I used it for a long time, but I finally got tired of having to install special programs constantly to do little things I could do on Windows with no problem. But about a month ago I wrote a post on the emerging church and Ubuntue.. I think it is pretty interesting if you wanna check it out.
@Joey – Thanks for stopping by. Nice post at your blog, btw. Good discussion following as well.
Hi Ben, thanks for the link!
BTW, I reside in nearby Apex … coffee’s on me.
Thanks for the ant city video. So incredible. I’m sure you didn’t miss the commentary that said in effect
it is as if one mind designed it.
Oh yeah! God has written the intincts of His creation!