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Published On: Dec 09, 2003 10:42 AM
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Published On: Dec 09, 2003 10:42 AM
Enter iBlog
An amusing little development: Apple offers a free copy
of the new "iBlog" program for anyone who is subscribed to their .Mac service. I
still think "blogging" is a fad. (There's no evidence that anyone is reading my
front page, and almost certainly no evidence that anyone is ever returning over
time to check up on my life.)
Oh I can't tell you how happy I am to see the Summer
Heat fade away. I almost feel like these thoughts are somehow UnAmerican. I
mean, isn't the American ideal of paradise somehow centered around sitting on a
beach, getting a tan, etc. etc.? Well, I'll at least claim an excuse for hating
the heat since I live in The Valley which can be anywhere from 10 to 30 degrees
hotter than Hollywood just maybe 10 miles away. All I can say is I'm happy to
stop running the expensive air
conditioner.
An amusing little development: Apple offers a free copy of the new "iBlog" program for anyone who is subscribed to their .Mac service. I still think "blogging" is a fad. (There's no evidence that anyone is reading my front page, and almost certainly no evidence that anyone is ever returning over time to check up on my life.) But you know what? Throughout my life I've tried to start writing a journal or diary at least half a dozen times, and this meager form has gone far longer than any of my other endeavors.
So I'll keep on blogging for a while, since it's obviously keeping me writing. And I might switch over to "iBlog", although that would probably mean no longer keeping the blog on my front page, but moving it into the periphery. The jury is still out on that.
By the way, I'm still trying to surf. Last weekend was a bit discouraging. There's a big learning curve ahead and I'm not far along enough for it to really be fun yet. But there's this stubborn determination that I'm not likely to shake.
Take care everyone. October is just around the corner!
UPDATE (just a tad after midnight):
I just played around with the "private" pages created by iBlog. Wow! There's very little security in place. If you know the author's private iBlog root directory, you can just set your browser to disable JavaScript (easy in I.E.) and then the page displays without even asking for authentication! In other words, the "privacy" created by the iBlog program is horrendously ameturish! If you intend to "publish" a private web log, make sure you can lock down the appropriate directory on your web server with REAL authentication protocols. (That means: don't publish a private web log on .Mac!)
Wow! That's the poorest security implementation I've ever seen in my life!!! That's saying something!
An amusing little development: Apple offers a free copy of the new "iBlog" program for anyone who is subscribed to their .Mac service. I still think "blogging" is a fad. (There's no evidence that anyone is reading my front page, and almost certainly no evidence that anyone is ever returning over time to check up on my life.) But you know what? Throughout my life I've tried to start writing a journal or diary at least half a dozen times, and this meager form has gone far longer than any of my other endeavors.
So I'll keep on blogging for a while, since it's obviously keeping me writing. And I might switch over to "iBlog", although that would probably mean no longer keeping the blog on my front page, but moving it into the periphery. The jury is still out on that.
By the way, I'm still trying to surf. Last weekend was a bit discouraging. There's a big learning curve ahead and I'm not far along enough for it to really be fun yet. But there's this stubborn determination that I'm not likely to shake.
Take care everyone. October is just around the corner!
UPDATE (just a tad after midnight):
I just played around with the "private" pages created by iBlog. Wow! There's very little security in place. If you know the author's private iBlog root directory, you can just set your browser to disable JavaScript (easy in I.E.) and then the page displays without even asking for authentication! In other words, the "privacy" created by the iBlog program is horrendously ameturish! If you intend to "publish" a private web log, make sure you can lock down the appropriate directory on your web server with REAL authentication protocols. (That means: don't publish a private web log on .Mac!)
Wow! That's the poorest security implementation I've ever seen in my life!!! That's saying something!
Posted: Mon - September 29, 2003 at 10:02 PM