Mac OS X: Highly critical security flaw Mac users take note! It is easily fixed by changing some settings. (Solution is in the comments of that post.)

Danger to bring Yahoo Messenger to handhelds

According to the blueprint, Arrested Development, my favorite new show of this last television season, will be back next year. I hope they have the good sense to move it to a different night. (via)

NBC Fall Lineup announced. Two more years of Scrubs!! That is good news for those of us who enjoy that particular comedy. They are adding a fourth Law and Order show. Between the three CSI’s and the four Law and Orders, you could start a network that ran nothing but law enforcement dramas.

BugMeNot.com is a site that lets you bypass annoying sites that force you to register to view content. (via)

RipDigital and MusicRip are two examples of companies that will take your CD collection and rip it for you at about a dollar a disk. I’ve got a lot of music, and I don’t think I really want to spend the kind of money I would have to to get everything ripped. I, however, am thinking about choosing about 200 disks that I really want ripped and sending them off. It would probably take me a weekend to rip 200 disks myself, adding the time it takes to check the meta-data that the CDDB returns, which, for a lot of the stuff I listen to, is somewhat wrong. Anyone used either of these services, or know of any that are better? Let me know in the comments, I guess.

There is a very in-depth article on testing page load speed posted over at Surfin' Safari.

I had almost forgotten somehow that I can post here from my sidekick. I ended up getting a replacement Sidekick instead of going with the Treo 600. My existing Sidekick, the black and white model, had battery issues, and the battery in it is not user replaceable.

Daring Fireball: Like a Lead Zeppelin: “Don’t announce ship dates. Don’t announce forthcoming features. And don’t announce future pricing. When the software is done, then announce it. You will never disappoint.”

Guardian Unlimited has an interview with Evan, one of the founders of Blogger. It’s the first place where I have seen someone from Blogger actually comment on their stand on syndication. He says, “We went with Atom feeds for everybody - they’re on new blogs by default - because of the ease of use and simplicity.” I mean, it is Google’s software, and it is their decision to make, but I think that introducing Atom into the equation makes it more confusing. Even today, on a mailing list of some fairly technology savvy people that I am on, someone asked the RSS vs. Atom question, and I grimaced. If the best argument for going with Atom as a Syndication format is ease of use and simplicity, then they don’t really have a decent argument for not offering both and making Atom the default. This just makes them look ridiculous and bitchy to me. (via)

Blogger Help : Known Issues This is something that might be helpful to refer to in the future. A couple of interesting items in the list too. “Blog*Spot blogs occasionally render a massive amount of gibberish in Mozilla” Now that’s odd, I seem to see a lot of “gibberish” on Blogspot blogs, and I don’t always use Mozilla:-)

The Trailer for the next Pixar production, The Incredibles, is just flat out nice. There is more good stuff over at the movie’s Web site. I’m actually excited to see this movie now.

Couldn’t make it to Coachella, but want to wear the merchandise so you fit in with the cool kids? Well, now you can.

A List Apart: Separation: The Web Designer’s Dilemma

Digital Media Thoughts has some information about a fourth generation iPod, or so they are claiming. Sounds plausible to me, but also, upon further thought, sounds like something one could easily have cooked up.

Apparently, I am sponsoring The Atlanta ColdFusion User Group’s Next Meeting, which features Ben Forta as its speaker. Over the years, ACFUG has been very kind to me and to my career. I am happy to be both a board member and a sponsor.

They featured GasBuddy on some television show that happened to be on in my bedroom. For some reason, I can’t remember what show it was, but that’s unimportant. If you need to find the cheapest gas around you, gasbuddy.com is the place you need to surf. Me, I don’t drive so much.

Thomas Friedman : “There is something even more important to the Bush crowd than getting Iraq right, and that’s getting re-elected and staying loyal to the conservative base to do so.”

Google Groups use of Atom represents the first non-Blogger area of Google’s operation that standardizes on Atom. (via Kottke)

Fast Company: Are All Consultants Corrupt?