US-CERT is reporting yet another vulnerability in Flash, relating to privilege escalation. If you use Flash, best practice is to do it with a Firefox plugin like noscript, I for one am glad that Flash is not supported at all on 64-bit platforms. :-)
John Wesley: Is there hope for me?
Here is comfort, high as heaven, stronger than death! What! Mercy for all? for Zaccheus, a public robber? for Mary Magdalene, a common harlot? Methinks I hear one say, “Then I, even I, may hope for mercy!” (from Wesley's sermon "Salvation by Faith", III.6; quoted in Derek J. Tidball, Builders & Fools: Leadership the Bible way. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1999, 31).
Quote: Breaking the law
"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law." -- Cecil B. deMille
Dave Barry feed
I've just added a feed for Dave Barry, a very funny man. Check out his articles when you are looking for some chuckles! I for one am really looking forward to getting an electronic yodelling pickle for Christmas.
Graphing Biblical genealogies
When i got to the genealogies in Chronicles in my daily Bible readings, i figured i'd try to have some fun with them, since i usually find them rather dry. So i decided to use the automatic graph drawing package graphviz to create a visualisation of the data in the genealogies. The results so far, which can be seen in the attached diagram, are quite interesting.
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