Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

...or not as the case may be...

Trend Micro is alerting its solution providers and customers about a bug in an update to one of its security products that inadvertently blocked all incoming e-mail containing the letter P.

Is a USB memory stick with a built in compact flash card reader...

..Today's fun fact!

It took 300,000 years for the human race to accumulate 12 exabytes of information, where an exabyte is a billion gigabytes - 10¹⁸ bytes. The University of California in Berkley estimates that 250 megabytes of data are created each year for each man, woman, and child on the planet - a further exabyte or so a year!

That was in 2000.

At this rate (taking into account growth rates), we will equal the amount of data produced sometime not long after 2005...

If you're plagued by Gator spyware, you may be interested in this study, Documentation of Gator Advertisements and Targeting, by Ben Edelman, which investigates the protocols used to target advertising at specific sites and web pages.

An interesting piece on Microdoc News about how stories flow across the connected world of the blogs...

(Posted in the full knowledge that I'm doing exactly what the piece is talking about! Whoa! Po-Mo!)