We discovered this weekend that someone hacked our photo site and added some code to the pages to try to run an ActiveX control – only IE users were affected.
Unlike Windows or OS X, there are no automatic updates for our website when a security problem is found in the software [...]
As some of you know I work from home in Granada, Spain, for Microsoft as a software developer on the Windows team. Prior to moving to Granada my wife and I lived in Seattle, Washington and I physically commuted to the Microsoft offices in Redmond. I can’t say I miss my daily hour [...]
We adopted Roscoe from a nearby shelter where he was abandoned on the first day of Semana Santa. Why someone would abandon him we can’t understand; we hear stories of how Spanish people don’t respect dogs in the same way we do and often abandon them rather than pay to kennel them when they [...]
On our way out of Portugal and back into Spain on a trip a month or so ago we drove through the Alentejo region, both because we’d never seen it, and more to the point – they have a wine tasting route (Rota dos Vinhos do Alentejo) you can follow right out of the country. [...]
Do you ever wonder what burners did before burning man? I’m sure they were inventors, visionaries, hedonists – and knowing that there must have always been burners, where are all their “projects”?? Last weekend we came across a garden outside of Lisbon that is a must see for anyone who has ever wandered [...]