A couple of geeky things for folks this morning:
First off, there’s a new Windows vulnerability. Yay. This one’s kinda nasty – it’s a security hole in JPEG image files, and it affects Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Office XP, Office 2003, Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1, Project, Visio, Picture It and Digital Image Pro. Anyone who’s already installed Service Pack 2 is OK, but for the rest of us who are too cautious/just waiting/don’t want the hassle, here’s Microsoft’s site on the vulnerability and how to patch it.
Next up, a note to T-Mobile Sidekick owners: that trade-in for $100 credit on a new SK2? Yeah, they’re having a few problems with it. Apparently, it’s still on, but they are completely swamped. Just an FYI.
And finally, something non-geeky for the rest of us: ZOMBIE CAKE! (link cribbed from lokilinks, a collection of fun links that I picked up yesterday)
Brophey has the first model of the Sidekick. It is now broken. If memory serves, it’s a refurbished model.
Brophey just bought a new phone from HP. Some new-fangled thing that he’s all geeky about. Or about which he is geeky. He has a few other emotions about it, but they’re not to be shared on a public post. Let’s just say he’s *really* happy about it.
Would it be a reasonable assumption that Danger has improved on the SIdekick? Then it might be worth picking up as a phone. Something to thing about. Something about which to think. Gah!
Yep, T-Mobile is supposed to be rolling out the Sidekick II in early October, I believe. Lots of improvements, apparently. If we move into a T-Mobile area (they don’t serve NC right now) I know Dan really wants one of these, and I could be tempted as well.
As for ending sentences with prepostions, well, I must agree with the esteemed Winston Churchill that that is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put!