Wired has a great writeup on the Slammer worm which hit the net last January. There is a really nice description in layman’s terms of how it works. Plus some awesome images of the effect of the worm on network traffic, one wittingly entitle Cisco Inferno!
Link spotted by Michael Heilemann
Christine over at bigpinkcookie.com has blogged about Mike and Matt IM-chatting over WiFi at a coffee shop in downtown Houston. In fact, as she discovered, they were chatting with me. Cool!
“I just had to snap this photo of Matt and Mike with my phone before we got down to business. I think they are actually IM’ing with each other, right here at the table. Ok, it’s an IM chat with a third WordPress developer who is in England.”
We’re hard at work on WordPress at the moment, a beta version of 0.7.1 was released yesterday, and we are just dealing with some last minute issues.
Check out the announcement.
Yep, it’s books catchup time again. Since I last mentioned books, I finished the Michael J. Fox autobiography: Lucky Man which I really enjoyed. It was quite moving in parts, but without being too sentimental. Recommended. Since then I have read a couple of Jamie‘s books: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer; Very, very, good. Great characters. Some really nice touches of humour. Recommended. I can’t wait to read the next one in the series; and Riotous Robots by Mike Goldsmith (edited by Clive Goddard) part of “The Knowledge” series. This was pretty good, informative without being too technical. Quite well balanced too, no bias at all. A good book.
Finally, I’m now reading Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson which is remarkably good for what is essentially a short dictionary.
I’ve spent the last two days doing unscheduled work. Again! It’s a good job they decided to take me (mostly) off the critical path on the current project. I’ve had a nasty bug to track down and fix. I issued the release this morning. Then another problem came to light, I spent the rest of this afternoon looking in to that. I’m leaning toward a data issue now, but it’s taken all afternoon to get there 🙁
I said on Sunday night that I was well on my way to my first Blogshares half million. I’ve managed to do better than that!
Yahoo! I’m a Blogshares millionaire! (Along with 440 other players).
“Chester Bennington, vocalist for Linkin Park was admitted to a Los Angeles
area hospital last Friday afternoon after an attack of severe back and
abdominal pains. Bennington remains hospitalized as doctors are still
trying to determine the cause of these ailments.
“All touring and video shoot plans in Europe have been put on hold this
month as we make sure Chester fully recovers,” states a spokesperson for
the band “we wish him the best, and will keep everyone posted as to his
condition.”
My best wishes are with him and his family.
Update 11/06/2003:
Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington is out of hospital but details of his illness are still a mystery. Chester himself thinks it was simply a virus.
There is a nice review of WordPress over at Fulton Chain Design.
“This seems like a very nice tool. While not as fully featured as others, it has the advantage of being lightweight, easy to understand and generates compliant markup ‘out of the box’.”
Some of the issues mentioned have already been addressed.
