… to a secure computing platform. Thanks Bill.

Time to visit Windows Update again. Stop reading this and go there now (why are you still reading?) as this, apparently, is the worst series of vulnerabilities ever seen on the Windows platform.

After you patch your machine, read more here. I already have plans to move my file server to Linux and I’m probably going to put Windows on my old box so I can play GTA until I buy an Xbox. It just doesn’t seem worth it any more.

The vulnerability was discovered by Marc Maiffret, ?Chief Hacking Officer? at eEye Digital Security. Marc alerted Microsoft 200 days ago and only now has a patch been made available. Microsoft claims that it needed more time for QA to test it. I’m not familiar with that phrase…

What people don’t comprehend is that all of our PC’s are ultimately connected to the same ‘network’ and while I might be safe after applying a patch I can still be affected by your refusal to apply the same patch. It’s like the guy that runs out of gas on a bridge; I may have gas but traffic is snarled so I’m not going anywhere. Same idea…

In other news that no one cares about, I got out and enjoyed the sun today. I walked around the seawall and snapped some pictures of the Lions Gate Bridge. I decided to cut through the park and managed to ‘get lost’. Now I wasn’t really lost but I was in an area I’d never been in before and while I knew I was going in the right direction, I wasn’t sure of where I was.

I gave thought to panicking or maybe lighting a really big fire but given that I was still on a path and that there were plenty of signs, I decided against it.

When I finally emerged I realized that I had done a lap of the park and was on the east side of the Causeway. I had intended to walk through the middle of the park. I guess my first clue should have been that I didn’t cross the Causeway on the way home. Disaster averted, I took some pictures at Coal Harbour and headed home.

It’s not easy being unemployed…