Well, last weekend, beautiful weather. This week, rain and sleet. But now the days are longer than the nights again, and it’s officially spring. War or no war, that’s something worth noting.
Welcome to everyone coming from Scripting News and TidBITS!
I've moved all the information about the WWDC change to Apple’s monkey-wrench in my summer.
- As a followup to yesterday’s story about the urgent patch for a Microsoft security hole, today it comes out that the Microsoft patch freezes some systems, including a friend of mine who’s now told that her copy of XP is not valid. The hardest hit seem to be those who acquired their copy of Windows with a yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum.
- In further geek-news, Virus writers take advantage of war to release a new worm called Ganda. It’s going out in emails with war-themed attachments. It hits Windows, and needs outlook to propagate talks directly to your SMTP server after pulling adresses from your address book. Where do you want to go today? Hell, if you’re running Windows, maybe it’s just time to shut the computer off for a while. Or install Lindows.
- In local news, Minneapolis Council may oppose Patriot Act:
The Minneapolis City Council may decide today whether to ban using city resources to enforce homeland security measures that some council members contend are unconstitutional.
Good for them. And while Mayor Rybak has opposed the city weighing in on national issues (which I’ve agreed with), this is a local issue. It’s opposing the use of City of Minneapolis resources to attempt to enforce unconstitutional federal laws. If you’re a local, it might be time to email or phone your councilmember. [strib] - Meanwhile, there’s a budget battle going on in D.C.: House moves toward approval of GOP budget; Senate effort to trim Bush tax cut fades. Just one of the other news stories you probably won’t hear about if you’re busy getting your war on.
- I know I said I was going to avoid war coverage, but the BBC NEWS Iraq At-a-glance page is pretty handy if you want to find out what’s up with the war. Yesterday’s is at BBC’s Iraq latest: At-a-glance. The page location changes every day at midnight GMT, so you can’t just bookmark it for tomorrow.
- Protests swell in wake of war, and More than 1,300 arrested in San Francisco protest. The jail’s full up. More on the arrests from the San Francisco Examiner.
- Finally, if you’ve had your fill of pro-war propaganda, here’s some 1940’s Propaganda Remixed. Tasty quotes like
Be a good American—Don’t try to think!
andAmericans Used To Fight Against Tyranny.
[some guy]