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. :-)

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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For the past 3 years, i've used a Dell Axim X50v as my take-everywhere computer. It has served me well (i typed some of this article on it), but is on its last legs now, and i'm a bit unsure about where to go next. Mobile computing has changed a lot in the last 3 years, and i'm not sure whether the same type of device is still viable. Also, the problems of mobile computing whilst using Linux on the desktop are still troublesome.

The main things i used my PDA for are (in rough order of priority):

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This spambot attack is continuing to have a residual tail:

Current statistics are: 7713 messages greylisted from 3407 unique IPs.

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If i thought yesterday was bad, today was worse. The most sustained part of the attack happened between 02:30 and 09:00 today:

Here's the weekly graph:

Let's hope we're through the worst of it now!