As I mentioned in my last post, there has been a fast-moving SQL Injection script targeting many ColdFusion sites around the web lately that relies on SQL queries unprotected by CFQUERYPARAM. The script kids finally got around to probing one of my sites and while my application is protected, the requests are generating lots [...]

I found out not long ago that my good friend and college housemate Jerry Tam had made the cut and would be appearing on Season 5 of Bravo TV’s Project Runway. I’m currently in Europe right now so I went looking to find some details about the season premiere last night. Knowing Jerry [...]

So I know he has a speech writer but love him or hate him, you can’t deny this guy is a different kind of candidate. The video is a bit long but hits the nail on the head why Barack Obama should be our next president: he gets the issues. Not the “everyone is [...]

Dean Saxe inspired me to finally publish this post. It’s been sitting in my pending bin for several weeks now. I like his ideas too although I can’t handle the low-flow shower head. Anyways:
People make saving the planet out to be an all or nothing issue. However, there are small, measurable [...]

It wasn’t all that many years ago that I wasn’t even registered to vote. As a small business owner working long hours with lots of responsibility, the remote risk of being called to jury duty and being unable to manage my business kept me from participating in the political process.
When I sold my company, [...]

Huzzah! It is possible. I have CFMX7 running under CentOS-5 (RHEL-5) with SELinux enforcing. I imagine this will also work to correct CFMX8.
The Problems

The mod_jrun20.so and mod_jrun22.so provided by Adobe is broken in many ways. You can see my original post on recompiling the connector to support mod_deflate but it’s just [...]

I’m sure most Americans have seen a mobile home on the back of a semi trailer being towed to its new home. It’s not a common sight, but once every few years I see one on the freeway. In New Zealand, they do it with all types of houses. My relative near [...]

I just returned home from a meeting tonight. One of the things I love about riding a bike is the enhanced sense of smell. On my way to the meeting I could smell people smoking cigars, bread baking and diesel trucks. Since I wear ear plugs, my sense of smell is exaggerated. [...]

I saw this mailbox in front of Moscone center today advertising uspsjedimaster.com. Dressed as R2D2 from Star Wars, there are apparently a lot of these mailboxes around the country. This was the first I had heard about it.
Although I think it’s cute, and if done extremely rarely, could be a successful buzz builder, [...]

This site has been eerily quiet since November when I took a working sabbatical. It wasn’t the kind of trip that gave me much time to post here while I focused on other priorities but I am back in the San Francisco bay area and looking forward to posting again. It’s nice to [...]