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You may have raised a geek family if… your OLAP DBA wife mistakenly calls a multidenominational church, a multi-dimensional church, and your kids (girls ages 14 and 8) are laughing just as hard as you are over her slip of the tongue.

A patch released by Microsoft to fix a critical security vulnerability in Internet Explorer does not work, according to security experts.
The "object type" vulnerability was discovered by eEye Digital Security around four months ago. A patch was released on 20 August -- and then re-released on 28 August, because under some circumstances it caused problems for some non-default operating system installations -- and looks due for yet another re-release because it simply doesn't fix the vulnerability it is supposed to.

The vulnerability can be exploited by crafting a malicious HTML file that, when viewed by an Internet Explorer browser, extracts and executes malicious code.

Speaking to ZDNet Australia by phone from the U.S., Marc Maiffret, eEye's "chief hacking officer", said the vulnerability is particularly critical because it doesn't take a lot of effort to take advantage of. "It's pretty serious just because it's so easy to exploit... it doesn't require someone to know how to write buffer overflow exploits or anything like that."

Maiffret says Microsoft should have done a better job to begin with. "How do you take four months to fix something this simple and then not fix it correctly?" he asked. "It seems like they are taking security seriously... [but] at the same time I don't think they're really investing."

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Brian talk about the new Search in MSDN.

I already posted something about this, and yes it doesn't work.

I received a lot of comments from fellow developers who use ... Google to search through MSDN :-(

So I suggest that MSDN include the Google search box instead of their search engine !

My previous post was also more about the overall structure of MSDN which now is more like a gigantic puzzle but the parts are not glue properly together.

Another good CSS tutorials and Faqs site Mako4css

I found this free service useful to test the speed of a site, and a series of advices to optimize a page.

Of course this is not fully complete, because they have some commercial services, but it's a good start for speeding your pages.

Just because it's a rainy Sunday and this world need to cheer it up a bit, I found this little application from Jeremy Keith very funny.

It's a kind of Find of Replace function but applied to any website you choose.

So you can transform a CNN article in an Onion type news.

Try yourself ;-)

I wonder if Jeremy use regular expressions in his generator ?

Next time I am on vaction I will use this very cool picture in Outlook autoreply ;-))

It's surely not .Net related, well for today but for tomorrow Sony is surely working on something totally new regarding the way we can conceive a computer.

They already presented the Vaio EQ at the 2002 Sony DreamWorld Show but this year the lucky visitors of the famous expo can see the results of Sony research.



Imagine an hexagonal panel without any keyboard. Imagine having a nice dinner conversation about how much you would like to go on holidays next summer in Australia.

The Vaio will be able to record automatically the surrounding voices and images, filter the keywords.