We were sad to hear about the terrorist bombings in London yesterday morning. Our heartfelt condolences go out to the families of the more than 50 persons killed in these cowardly attacks.

You know, there are really a lot of crappy podcasts out there (sadly, ours is lame, too). Here are some that are actually interesting, well-produced, and profanity-free:

The Word Nerds
KnitCast
SETI Podcast
We Are Marie
KC Weather Podcast
CraftyPod

These may be lesser-known feeds, but provide more family-friendly content than the typical 'Top 10' you see in most of the podcast directories.

Well, I learned something new today regarding decoding binary files from Base64-encoded strings in WinXP: don't use Wordpad for cutting and pasting, it's too smart for it's own good. Why? Because Wordpad supports Unicode and will therefore interpret some of the characters as those of other languages (some of the characters in my Base64 string were being interpreted as Chinese characters). Solution? Use Notepad (which doesn't support Unicode) - it'll keep everything in a Western/Latin font, and thus correctly display the string.

I know it's a month old, but when are all the Mytob.ED viruses going to stop making the rounds?