Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Google Desktop vulnerability

Nick sent me this link

http://download.watchfire.com/googledesktopdemo/index.htm

Now, if Nick was a little less lazy (or I smarter), we could engineer this very link to exploit that vulnerability. So if you clicked on the link, you'd learn about the vulnerability, but only after falling prey to it.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

MetaSniffing

Occasionally I'll post articles or blogs that -- subconsciously or deliberately -- do something meta. Like this one:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070220-8887.html

(To clarify, the link above is for an article that talks about a journal that does something meta, but it's shorter than the original link and features detailed analysis of the meta-ness of the journal, so I chose it instead).

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Blog entries versus comments

Welcome to metayada, a blog devoted to rambles on all things meta.

Marc suggested this as the first blog entry, and I like it. So here we go.

"What kinds of things should be posted as blog entries vs posted as comments?"

[As a side note, you might wonder why I'm posting Marc's question. Well, for one, I want to start generating some content, but also, suffering most likely from a mild form of OCD I meticulously keep every email in my inbox until it has been "processed". An email with Marc's idea has been sitting very comfortably in my inbox for more than three weeks now, causing me major sleeplessness, headaches and fatigue. Until now. There, it's gone. In Trash. Not a to-do anymore.]

Back to Marc's question. I'm not sure whether I should answer it here in the entry or in the comment. Am I allowed to comment on my own entry?