October 2009 Archives

I have a question.. not sure exactly where to direct this question at such a late hour on a friday night, i'll just type it out here... After being sick for a couple of days I've read that appearantly there's a vulnerability in the .Net framework extension that Microsoft shipped.. they recommend disabiling it, et all.. which is good.. I also have seen the bug where you guys have responded quickly to block the extension and the plugin to prevent damage.. Bug 522777 Thanks for the quick response.

My question, is, what are you guys going to do to prevent extensions from being installed without user consent by 3rd party software, whether its a windows update or something like skype, neither of which inform users that they're going to install... *before* they're allowed in? Responding after the fact is great, don't get me wrong. The side-effects of the current situation range appearantly from critical like this exploit, to annoying, like sharing a machine and ending up with the paypal extension because one of the other users needed it. I've seen blog posts mentoning improving notifications, but i'm confused which of the several versions of in-development Firefox this applies to, and if it actually prevents the installation completely or not? I don't mind reading, just point me to a clear bug or wiki or even blog post where its clearly tracked..

Comments here are fine, that way anybody else who is confused gets the answer to.. :-)

Thanks,
-- Wolf

Update (10/17/2009): Mossop was kind enough (thanks!) to direct me to...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/System_Extension_Notification
and
http://www.oxymoronical.com/blog/2009/08/Notifying-users-about-third-party-add-ons

This work should appear in Firefox 3.7. (I haven't yet asked why not the next version, but i'm sure there's good reasons, timetables being what they are.)

Inspiration from a pot of soup..

The constant companion of timekeeping...

This huge wall-clock is on the wall at the salon where I get my hair cut. It sits up there alone a very heavy reminder of the presence of time.. quite fitting for a place that revolves around appointment times.

Moo...

Dedicated in memory to Dorotha M. Hudson, my grandmother...

The energy of commerce...

This image was a complete surprise to me, I was using my pocket-sized point and shoot to try and capture interesting people candidly in the local mall, but the mode dial was accidentally knocked to landscape mode, increasing considerably the exposure time. So instead of the image I had expected, I got a collection of motion blurs, after getting over the annoyance of not having gotten the shots I wanted, these began to appeal to me, each is completely different, and in this one, the blur of the people walking by captures the energy that is a mall well.

Mrs. Dorotha Mills Hudson, age 82 of Abrams Moore Road, Rutherfordton, died Thursday, October 8, 2009 at White Oak Manor, Rutherfordton. A native of Polk County, she was a daughter of the late Gaston Mills and Sarah Jane Wilson Mills, widow of the late Joe Hudson, a homemaker, and of the Baptist faith. Survivors include her son, Kevin Hudson and his wife Kelly of Rutherfordton; two daughters, Barbara Crews and Donna Hudson, both of Rutherfordton; a brother, Keith Mills; a sister, Helen Brady; and a grandson, Christopher Crews. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Festus Mills; sisters, Lula Mills, Elsie Ruff, and Aberdeen Jackson, and a son-in-law, Don Crews. Funeral services will be held 4:30 Saturday, October 10, 2009 in the Padgett & King Chapel with Rev. Travis Smith officiating. Interment will be private in the Grays Chapel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rutherfordton. Visitation will be from 3:30 until the hour of service at the mortuary. The Padgett & King Mortuary is in charge of arrangements and an online guest registry is available at www.padgettking.com.

An experimentation with light

This image is a by-product of sitting down near where I had left my Nike's from the day before, the perspective was interesting, looking up at something that's usually looked down at, equipped with a SB-600 on a cable with the D60, I experimened with different light angles.. and decided to later try more with color, to complement the forest green of the accents on the shoes, I used a green filter on the flash, and this striking glow was the result.

The tiny world inside.

A completely quick shot, that just happened to work out wonderfully... albiet, completely not what I had in mind when I took it.

This is in the lobby of Robinson hall at UNCC, I was hoping to capture more of the cloudy day outside through the long windows, instead, I got a very nice perspective of how massive the lobby is.

Life at 135mm, this image and all the rest I took today were all shot at 135mm.. I'm used to being pretty variable with my focal lengths, so its interesting being stuck looking at things so closely... gives things a very different appearance.

Looking up at a pillar of light...

I was shooting clouds with the 70-300mm lens when it happened to get dark.. I looked around and found the sun hidden behind this cloud....

One of the benefits of being in the middle of a large road expansion project, lots of construction workers to photo, though this is the first one that's come out as anything more than just a random snapshot. I feel it captures a lot about the guy, even though hes looking away and just waiting to get on with his day.

I've decided to follow along with my friend Curtis and participate in Project 365... same basic rules apply, I'll post as often as I can, though it might not be daily.... The first few days will be back-dated since I didn't actually decide to start until after he did.