Posted on the blog while Livejournal was down...

(6:17:46 PM) I've just been spammed. I'm not sure which is worse - the offense of receiving unsolicited advertising, or the fact that the first line of the message was "WE DEEPLY APOLOGIZE IF THIS E-MIAL COST YOU ANY INCONVENIENT"

(2:31:12 PM) From NewsForge: MS admits IE security lapse. A month or so ago, Microsoft was telling us that the responsible thing to do was to not publicise security flaws in its software. Now we see what they do if the flaw is kept secret from the public and only reported to Microsoft - they deny they even heard of it.