Since I run a lot of Drupal and Moodle servers, it’s a good idea to keep up to date on all the published vulnerabilities. I’d really prefer to have some tool that lets me know when a new vulnerability is found, so I don’t have to keep checking back at a bunch of different web sites on the off chance a new vulnerability has been found. Fortunately, the Department of Homeland Security has an excellent site that provides RSS feeds of the vulnerabilities in their database. Handy, but a serious case of information overload since the feeds cover everything in their database.
Hmm. Distinctly suboptimal. Perhaps this is a good time to play with Yahoo Pipes? I’d looked at it before, but had never gotten around to actually building a pipe. This seems like a nice simple thing to try. Continue reading ‘Dabbling with Yahoo Pipes’
On Wednesday, Feb. 18th, the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation is coming to Portland to meet the Portland tech community.
What: TrustTheVote! Intro in Portland, Oregon
When: Feb 18, 2009, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.,
Where: CubeSpace, 622 SE Grand Ave, Portland
Come see what’s new in the world of open digital voting!
A month ago I left the stone age of dumb mobile phones and finally got myself a smartphone. Given the choice between a Blackberry and an iPhone, I chose an iPhone.
So far I love the phone, but as a heavy Google Apps user, I was unhappy with the options for calendar, contacts and mail. The mobile Google interface is very good, but it bothered me that I couldn’t sync my Google calendars to the iPhone’s built-in calendar without plugging into iTunes and syncing via iCal subscriptions. Plus, the mobile Google Calendar event creation is - unlike just about everything else in the Google mobile suite - completely unusable. Well, at least I get SMS reminders and access to my Gmail accounts. I could live with that.
Then yesterday Google released Calendar and contact syncing for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices. O frabjous day!
Continue reading ‘iPhones and Google Sync’