It's nice to be reminded sometimes that all software has security flaws, not just M&M products (Mozilla and Microsoft). Thus, it's interesting to note the recent RealPlayer security flaw that just made headlines which affected Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions of the app.

It's been a long time in coming, but the new USDA food pyramid (MyPyramid.gov) has finally arrived. Funny thing is that most people can't even spell the word "pyramid", let alone type it into the address bar as part of the URL.

Kaspersky has an excellent article out which examines Q1 of 2005 in relation to the evolution of computer malware. An interesting read.

It's odd to me how Firefox doesn't always release memory when minimizing windows if you're using tabs, but it does if you don't use tabs. I had read an article about this recently, but can't find the reference. If I can find it again, I'll come back and add a link. (It was basically saying that if you use Firefox but your computer doesn't have much RAM, that you shouldn't use tabbed browsing, but rather use multiple windows instead.)

Old news now, I suppose, but the new pope was elected: Pope Benedict XVI. Why do they change their names when becoming the pope?

There is an excellent 3-D Mondrian lego sculpture photo on the cover of next month's Oracle Magazine (May/June 2005 edition). Very cool.

Federal Computer Week magazine has a funny article on Firefox (old version 1.0.2). If you haven't seen Firefox crash yet, you just haven't done much with it, in my opinion. The article has a few good points, like how Open Source code can be a torment instead of a boon.

They also have a great article on wiki's. However, what kind of article that focuses on websites doesn't include the URLs to those websites? Lame. Anyway, I'm adding here a link to the NASA Worldwind Wiki about which the article devotes an entire section.

Dan and I stumbled onto the hardest page on the web to print (in any browser). Give it a shot, if you dare - muahahaha! Firefox and Netscape 8 will do nice page breaks, but won't print hole #2 in portrait mode or hole #18 in landscape mode, while Internet Explorer won't do nice page breaks nor print hole #18 at all. In FF, the whole print job is only 10 or 11 pages, while in Opera it is apparently going to take up 65,536 pages, and yet in Internet Explorer it's only a mere 1,599. Even on a fast computer, the spooling of the 1,599 mostly blank pages (even in Print Preview) takes about 15 minutes, so don't expect to try this experiment lightly. About the only way to print this page is by taking screenshots, or start messing with print scaling percentages. LAME!

Symantec's rapid release Intelligent Updater virus definition files finally hit the 10 MB mark recently! Woohoo! That's a milestone - hope they had a company party or something.