What’s Been Happening
I’ve been away from this blog for quite some time, and really feeling quite guilty for not making the entry. Although not the first time I’ve abandoned this blog, this is the first time that this blog actually has some purpose and structure (sort of). Anyway, I have this little thing about excuses and how I think they are similar to a–holes. Everybody has them and they all stink 
. However, I do want to explain as to why I have been an absentee blogger since the holidays. One word — BUSY. Yeah, yeah aren’t we all? Read more
Something off topic but really important: Help Haiti
Some info on how to extend a helping hand to folks devastated by the quake in Haiti:
You can send a $10 Donation by Texting ‘Haiti’ to 90999 or You can make a donation by calling 1-800-REDCROSS or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish) or visit the Redcross site and click on the Donate Now button.
If $10.00 is a little bit more than you can afford right now, musician Wyclef Jean’s organization Yele Haiti also receives donations via text for $5.00. Yele Haiti’s website is http://www.yele.org/. You can text “YELE” to 501501 to give $5 to help with earthquake relief efforts.
In Canada, people can donate $5 to the Salvation Army by texting “Haiti” to 45678 through a system set up by the Mobile Giving Foundation.
Unless you have personally researched any other organization and know that they are trustworthy, be careful. YOU DON’T WANT YOUR WELL-INTENTIONED DOLLARS TO FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS.
Not all “text to donate” services are created equal. Unfortunately, however appalling it may be, opportunistic scammers typically come out of the woodwork in the wake of catastrophes, hoping to strike it rich through fraudulent schemes.
Semi-Hiatus Over
Wishing I was on hiatus because I was really on vacation, but missed several weeks of posts because I was actually tied up on another project and just can’t find anymore time nor the energy to get online after banging my head on the monitor dealing with the folks involved in this project. Hopefully in the next few weeks, it’ll be finally done. It’s almost like looking forward for that root canal to be over with…
CHEERS!!!
Wishing you all a safe, happy and prosperous New Year…
It’s time for that cheesy classic…
Semi-hiatus
The past 2 weeks has been interestingly hectic. So hectic I barely have time to sit and put in an entry. In any case, I’m hoping to still be able to put in an entry here and there and hopefully I should be fully back in the fold by Jan. 2 next year.
Whatever the case maybe, I hope you all are having a wonderful Holiday Season and I wish you all the best for 2010.
Yeah Boy! Yah Suck! Friday…
Missed last Friday’s Yeah Boy, Yeah Suck ‘coz of the holidays and today I’ve been fighting the network gremlins all morning and a little out of sorts right now and playing catch-up… Yes that cheese to go with my whine sounds good just about now…
Anyway…
This week’s Yeah Boy! (should have been last week, but who’s tracking?)…
Efren Peñaflorida and the rest of the 10 CNN 2009 Heroes. Their stories are simply the true silver lining in the dark clouds that has been laying over our dear planet. Efren Peñaflorida was named the CNN Hero of the Year, but even though I am truly proud of this man from my home country, I can easily say that any of the other 9 folks recognized in this event are equally deserving.
My hat’s off to these heroes: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive09/index.html
What else is there to say but YEAH BOY!!!
This week’s Yah Suck, well there are so many choices: Read more
DARPA and the Red Balloons
A little something-something to tickle the fancy of social media geeks out there. If you have not heard of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), they are the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense and are essentially the key organization responsible for creating the Internet, and no, Al Gore was not the head of DARPA 40 years ago when the concept of digital inter-connectivity was being developed … And yes, it is the same the “Intranetsh” George Dubya Bush likes to quote… 
QUICK UPDATE: MIT STUDENTS WIN THE COMPETITION (http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/12/06/MIT-students-win-military-balloon-hunt/UPI-82141260114716/)
Happy Thanksgiving
Depending how stuffed I am or how lazy I get after downing several servings of deep fried turkey and all its trimmings and buzzed over watching too much football, I may or may not post any new stuff for the next 4 days… Long weekend… It’s time give thanks and be thankful for what we have and what we will soon have (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual -whatever floats one’s boat)…
That said, I wish you all a Safe, Rewarding and most of all a very Happy Thanksgiving Weekend…
Monday DeMondaynizer
Having the Monday Blues? Maybe a little word of inspiration from our preacher will DeMondaynize your Monday…
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Google News works fast… I mentioned yesterday that they approved DebtValley to be indexed in Google News and… http://bit.ly/3mvFp9
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Business Tech Press Releases- Telecom Argentina S.A. Announces Consolidated Annual Period ('FY09') and Fourth Quarter Results for Fiscal Year 2009 ('4Q09')* March 10, 2010
- Country Club Products Chooses Direct|Connect 4.0 for its Paid Search Marketing Needs March 10, 2010
- RTS Introduces First Phase of Technology Initiative to Further Reduce Latency March 10, 2010
- Health Privacy Rights Are Threatened by Proposed Federal Rule for Electronic Health Records (EHRs) March 10, 2010
- Motorola Announces Industry Leading Capabilities for MOTOTRBO(TM) Professional Digital Two-way Radio System March 10, 2010
- From the National Vulnerbility Database
- CVE-2010-0940 (simple_php_guestbook) March 7, 2010Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in guestbook.php in Simple PHP Guestbook 1.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the action parameter. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0936 (dkvm-ip8) March 7, 2010Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in auth.asp on the D-LINK DKVM-IP8 with firmware 2282_dlinkA4_p8_20071213 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the nickname parameter. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0945 (com_hotbrackets) March 7, 2010SQL injection vulnerability in the HotBrackets Tournament Brackets (com_hotbrackets) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter to index.php. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0938 (todoo_forum) March 7, 2010Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in todooforum.php in Todoo Forum 2.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id_forum parameter in a post action. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0944 (com_jcollection) March 7, 2010Directory traversal vulnerability in the JCollection (com_jcollection) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2009-4678 (winn_guestbook) March 7, 2010Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in Winn Guestbook 2.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0943 (com_jashowcase) March 7, 2010Directory traversal vulnerability in the JA Showcase (com_jashowcase) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter in a jashowcase action to index.php. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0939 (abb_forum) March 7, 2010Visialis ABB Forum 1.1 stores sensitive information under the web root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to download a database via a direct request for fpdb/abb.mdb. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0942 (com_jvideodirect) March 7, 2010Directory traversal vulnerability in the jVideoDirect (com_jvideodirect) component for Joomla! allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the controller parameter to index.php. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0937 (visualization_library) March 7, 2010Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Visualization Library before 2009.08.812 have unknown impact and attack vectors. […]nvd@nist.gov
- CVE-2010-0940 (simple_php_guestbook) March 7, 2010