Walking Forward, Looking Back

I saw this book at the front of the library yesterday, and I checked it out. I was finished with it in a couple of hours.

The subtitle is "Lessons from the World Trade Center: A Survivor's Story". It's written by John Labriola, the only person to take photographs inside the World Trade Center during the attacks of September 11th, 2001.

One word: WOW.

Spiritual Awakenings and Salvation

Someone pointed this post to me, since it's about the battle to overcome addiction. It will make for a good read, I'm sure.

Ohio's DUI Law

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, since I'm a bartender and a casual consumer of alcoholic beverages.

This website describes, in as simple terms as possible, the crux of Ohio's DUI Law, including the penalties (mandatory jail time and license suspension).

Another website reminds me that

• Any server, waiter, or bartender may be arrested if they sell or furnish alcohol to an intoxicated person.
• It is illegal for a person of any age to possess an open container of beer, wine, mixed beverages or liquor in any public place.

Also worthy of note is this article by Peter Daigle, entitled "Sobering Thoughts - Bar Held to High Standard of Care." It describes a case in Canada in which a bar was held responsible even though a patron only consumed two drinks while there.

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Attention Deficit Drugs May Have Long-Term Effects

This article discusses the physisiological aspects of medicine, based on a study done on lab rats. Interesting, to say the least. Yet I found the following statment a little bit amusing:

But rats, which generally like cocaine, were less likely to eat it if they had been give Ritalin.

An 'Alias' That Satisfies

I saw tonight's episode at work, and I must say that I found it satisfying in a lot of ways. Fortunately my wife taped it, and we'll get to look at it better tomorrow night.

Yahoo Patches IM Security Hole

I didn't even know that there was a security hole. I'm glad I found this on my MSN.com:

The vulnerability stems from an error in the "yauto.dll" file, an ActiveX component of Messenger. The security hole affects Yahoo Messenger versions 5.6.0.1347 and earlier, the advisory [issued Wednesday by Danish security company Secunia] said.

To find out what version of Yahoo! Messenger you have, from the Yahoo! Messenger window, go to Help | About Yahoo! Messenger. A popup window will appear, and it will show you what version you are running.

According to Yahoo!, the problem has more to do with a wider vulnerability in Internet Explorer than it does with their messaging software:

Only users that have chosen to change IE's security settings to the "low" level, rather than the default "medium" setting, or that are not running the most recent IE patches would be vulnerable, Yahoo said. An attacker then would need to direct a vulnerable user to view malicious HTML code in order exploit the hole.

Users still need to make sure that their security settings are set appropriately and use the most recent version of IE.

Gosh!

I've been here for over 4 hours!!! I consider it blogging time well-spent, though.

Hot, Buttered Blogrolls

... served with jelly. Except that Blogrolling.com, which serves the blogroll list usually seen on the left of this blog, is down right now. Ugh!

What if your server goes down? Is it going to ruin my page?
Certain layouts that use the JavaScript publishing method may experience a lag if the server becomes inaccessible. If you are worried about this happening, you can use one of the more robust, backend solutions.

Update: It appears that they are back, up, and running. Yee-ha, baby!

CHADD of Suburban Cincinnati

I think I will want to attend one or more of these meetings.