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. :-)
Computing
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.
...Contemplating my mobile computing platform
The main things i used my PDA for are (in rough order of priority):
...Spambot attack - part 3
This spambot attack is continuing to have a residual tail:

Current statistics are: 7713 messages greylisted from 3407 unique IPs.
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Spambot attack - part 2
If i thought yesterday was bad, today was worse. The most sustained part of the attack happened between 02:30 and 09:00 today:
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Here's the weekly graph:
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Let's hope we're through the worst of it now!


