Frustrated by a coworker’s use of old-school programming techniques

Saw this article in TechRepublic, and it's pretty good actually.

Though it talks about working with coworkers who code really differently, the human aspect of handling this problem can be just about applied anywhere also.

Academic Earth

Here's another endeavour to bring free education out to the masses.  Good mission, I'd say :)

http://www.academicearth.org/

http://www.academicearth.org/about

Revelation

There're two ways when someone will reveal him/herself: when the listener asks, or when the person initiates it.

It'll only be one way or the other.

Plank vs Speck

The more you keep focused on the specks in others' eyes, the less you'll see the plank in yours.

Application Boundaries Enforcer (ABE)

This module enforces application boundaries at the browser end, and in the future possibly implemented as a web filtering proxy also.

http://hackademix.net/2008/12/20/introducing-abe/

This module is not out as yet, but I'll be waiting for its release to see whether it really is a good thing to push to end users.

TODO: Check out XSS Proxy

Some things to check out when I have a bit of time to spare:

http://xss-proxy.sourceforge.net/

http://xss-proxy.sourceforge.net/Advanced_XSS_Control.txt

http://hackathology.blogspot.com/2007/10/xss-proxy-poc.html

http://www.securiteam.com/tools/5UP0G0UEVO.html

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20060718/attacking-applications-via-xss-proxies/

http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070710/xss-proxy-tunnelling/

Oh yeah, and this is a real gem :)

Server/network admins be warned...XSS can be really bad for you too...

http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com/2008/08/cross-site-scripting-can-be-used-to.html

MSN Live Messenger

Microsoft has done it!

It has made me change back from Miranda IM to MSN Live Messenger for MSN. That's how good the new version is.... ;D

CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/

http://www.sans.org/top25errors/

Pretty much the same stuff, but a good list for reference/learning nonetheless.

YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Pity I don't play any instruments, thought this would be really really interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/symphony

Basically people from all over the world are invited to send in their video recordings for their parts, which will be made into an online orchestra.  The best will get to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall in April 2009.

They even have video recordings of the Tan Dun conducting for every instrument!  So that you can practise on your own, online :D

On a separate note, never thought classical music could be so nice after watching Nodame Cantabile, heh. :)

Nodame Cantabile

Nodame Cantabile - Live Action

Nodame Cantabile: Paris Chapter

Spam messages in Facebook

Can't really figure out how this is possible, even applications that you install shouldn't be allowed to send chat messages on your behalf.  Perhaps browser malware?

Any ideas, anyone?