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Update 2010-12-17: Those of you who saw this post appear and then vanish were not seeing things. The Mono community identified the contents of this blog post as a serious security vulnerability in Moonlight that, through violation of the type system, allows the CoreCLR security layer to be bypassed. Attackers ...

Before you read this entry, please be aware that it might rub you the wrong way. (That's okay with me if it's okay with you. I don't expect that everyone will share my perspective.)

There's always the one guy who has to be the party pooper ...

So I'm working on this XPath presentation for my team at work. I was trying to hack up a sample using some of the more interesting XPath functions, like string-join. PHP's DOMXPath throws a fit when I use this function so I cracked open MSDN and saw that ...

A few fun things have been happening, but I've been too busy to write about them. Now that I have time, I've just finished moving into my new house for the summer and won't have Internet access until this Monday (or later if past experience on this ...

I have been migrating my primary server from VPS.NET to Linode because I can get better specs for the same rate as well as Linode having considerably (5-6x) better disk I/O performance. One of the goals of this migration was to avoid deploying Apache or MySQL on the ...

I got my new display installed and all is almost well, but there's two pixels smack in the center with the red component stuck on. I've tried such things as JScreenFix and massaging/tapping to no avail. So I guess it's going back to the seller for ...

I've already sent out a message to those I contact frequently, but for the rest of you, my email address has changed from cdhowie@gmail.com to me@chrishowie.com.

I have decided to migrate away from Gmail for a variety of reasons. I figured I'd ...

There have been many good changes in my life recently. It's been almost three months since I graduated college, and nearly two since I got married. Well, now I have another for the list.

For two years I've been working at Ontario Systems as an intern. The first ...

I've switched this blog to new hosting. Hopefully the only difference you'll notice is faster load times.

I got the replacement for my defective laptop display on Saturday and got around to installing it last night. So far everything looks good. There are no defective pixels as far as I can tell and, as a bonus, it's a matte display instead of the glossy one that ...