Windows OS

It's actually a bit of a mis-design than anything else. It actually dates back to Windows 3.0. In theory, all these new exploits will even run (MAYBE) in Windows 3.0. If not, you could always write one if you really really wanted to.

Anyways, a much more technical write up than what I could do is over at the F-secure blog, which I always watch religiously. They are from Finland, so that helps too. [Despite my last name looking French or Asian, it is actually Finnish]

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012006.html#00000761

http://www.hexblog.com/2005/12/wmf_vuln.html

I've seen and heard about too many infections that this can not wait until the January Patch Tuesday.

Happy New Year!

We secretly went to Delaware to surprise a friend getting married that we've known for a long time. They had been convinced no one from Michigan outside of family were coming. They were wrong. On Friday night, Cassandra called Julie to tell her to check to see if her wedding package had arrived since she had been tracking it and UPS said it had been delivered to the doorstep. So, Julie opened the door and 3 people from Michigan were there. She had a look on her face like she had won the lottery.

That alone was worth the trip, and of course Dan's reaction and then rest of the weekend was very fun.