A little help for my beloved

My partner singing_phoenix is struggling with a lot of anxiety just now due to continued bad news from her U.S. workplace, and is all alone in Kenya with no one but me to talk to. Can you please stop by her LJ and give her a word or two of support and encouragement? If you care about me at all, I hope you'll care about her too. I can't do it alone.

How to keep Java/JavaScript hackers out of your Web browser

Muchas gracias to autographedcat for pointing me in the direction of a nifty little Firefox add-on called NoScript. If you use Firefox and aren't using NoScript with it yet, run—don't walk to the above linked site and get it now. It blocks websites you visit from running JavaScript code on your machine and shows a bar at the base of your browser window which gives you the opportunity to "whitelist" sites you want to allow JavaScript for. And it works on all operating systems Firefox supports.

Besides preventing scriptkiddies with malicious exploits from taking over your 'puter, one feature that makes it worth having NS all by itself is partial vetting, which lets you allow scripts from the site you're visiting...but not from their commercial partners, who link to it from their own sites elsewhere. This has the effect of blocking most ads that are not hosted on the actual site in your window. Suh-weet! Oh, and did I mention it's absolutely free?

I got a letter in the paper!

L. Brent Bozell III's column on the Democrats and Mark Foley, printed in yesterday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution: here.
My response, printed in today's AJC: here.
Watching conservatives and Republicans squirm over one of their own getting caught robbing the cradle (and taking lots of them down with him): priceless.