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 we use; it’s [...]
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 and a [...]
A while back I wrote about our home backup system here, I thought it was time for an update. We still use the same system I described, but have added another backup storage to it, this time on the web. By good fortune the same people that host our website also allow us a huge [...]
Looks like I’m not the only one who’s noticed the dip in quality lately over at One Infinite Loop, this was the headline yestarday morning over at CNet. http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9829091-37.html. I don’t mean to poke fun at the competition, but this year has been a string of bad iTunes updates (I’ve lost count of the 7.x.1 [...]
We arrived home a week ago from a week in Mexico and a few days in Madrid. We went to Tulum, Mexico for the wedding of our friends John & Emily, it was a beautiful beach ceremony; we’d go back to Tulum again! We returned home and as seems normal these days all of our [...]