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Entries from August 2004

Security update for Putty users

August 29th, 2004 · No Comments

From the “if you have to use <cough> Windows </cough>” file…
From the Putty home page:

Latest news
2004-08-03 SECURITY HOLE, fixed in PuTTY 0.55
PuTTY 0.55, released today, fixes a serious security hole which may allow a server to execute code of its choice on a PuTTY client connecting to it. In SSH2, the attack can [...]

Tags: Technology

A visit to John and Isabelle’s

August 27th, 2004 · No Comments

“Aren’t I just the cutest?”
Kathryn is visiting with ‘Grandma’ Isabelle, around the end of May.

Tags: Kathryn · Photographs

Auntie Sheila

August 25th, 2004 · No Comments

“Hey, Auntie Sheila, are you trying to suck out my brains?”

Tags: Kathryn · Photographs

Ooooh! Ooooh! Pick me! Pick me!

August 25th, 2004 · No Comments

Getting back to the backlog…

“Ooooh! Ooooh! Pick me! Pick me!”
Just like ‘Donkey’. This is from May 24th, 2004, when Kathryn turned 4 months old.

Tags: Kathryn · Photographs

Kathryn at 7 months

August 24th, 2004 · No Comments

Happy 7 month ‘birthday’, Kathryn!

“I can fly!”
Today, our little pooklet turned 7 months of age. She’s now 26 3/4 inches long, and weighs a whopping 17lbs 12oz. The photo below was taken precisely 7 months (to the minute) that Kathryn arrived in our world. My how you’ve changed!

Tags: Kathryn · Photographs

Properly Attired

August 24th, 2004 · No Comments

I’m officially now a card-carrying member of Daring Fireball. The items below arrived in the mail this past Friday. Below is a photo of me properly attired.

As proof of the ‘card-carrying’ part, here’s my card…

Tags: Web

Wet-wrap close-up

August 23rd, 2004 · No Comments

One more in the ‘wet-wrap’ series.

“Look deeeeep into my eyes.”
Thankfully, Kathryn’s eczema is getting better these days. Several months ago, when this photo was taken, it was much worse.

Tags: Kathryn · Photographs

Kathryn, the wet-wrap years

August 22nd, 2004 · No Comments

I haven’t been very good lately at getting more pictures of Kathryn up here. I think this series brings me up to date to August 10th in my attempt to post a picture per day. These photos are from the end of May, when Kathryn was four months old. She’s now only two days away [...]

Tags: Kathryn · Photographs

Browse Happy

August 20th, 2004 · No Comments

Please people, if you must use Windows, please, please, please, use a browser other than Internet Explorer. Why, you ask? The new Browse Happy campaign, from the Web Standards Project explains why.

Tags: Web