Sam’s random musings

“Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

Spency went to the tower and this is what he did…nn

Some thoughts to consider on the Israeli-Palestinian death-embrace in Gaza, from the Israel Policy Forum (”A Way Out?”)….

“Broken Engagement ” by Gen. Wesley Clark The strategy that won the Cold War could help bring democracy to the Middle East– if only the Bush hawks understood it.

alexking.org: Blog > Craftsman As someone who often was unable to add the polish I wanted to when working at a BigCo, this might be the thing I enjoy most about being an independent developer

i agree that this is one of the things that I enjoy the most as well. Alex, I have to that that Tasks has polish! And so does NetNewsWire

How to protect your Mac from the Mac OS X 10.3 security exploit announced earlier this week.nnGood method for taking care of this until apple fixes it

codepoetry :: Help! Having been a “pro-level” user of the OS since System 6 and developer since 8.5, I’ve paid close attention to the hel technologies in the OS as they came and went. Some were pur genius, others not so much. When I look back on the many, many way Apple’s provided help to the user over the years, I can easily see how thi recent help attack issue came to be and why no one paid much attention to it until someone realized it could be used for ill. It’s been used for so many things that were constructive that few, if any, ever thought about using it destructively.

So, to see how and why this could have made it out the door, let’s look at Apple’s help technologies over the past ten years or so.

Good historical back drop for the current help: url scare

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”