I picked up Katamari Damacy on Sunday and have quickly become addicted to it.
It is the most fun I’ve had with a PS2 game in a while. Easy to get into, original, fun to play, and hard to put down. Right now I’m stuck on Star 7 grr…. 
November, 2005
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Nov 05
Katamari Damacy
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Nov 05
wp-keitai-mail and the PHPXMLRPC vulnerability
I use Dr. Dave’s wp-keitai-mail script for my moblog postings which works great; however, it depends on some older XMLRPC files from Wordpress 1.2 which unfortunately are vulnerable to remote code execution that has recently been exploited by a worm making its way around the Internet. It looks like Dr. Dave has lost interest in updating it and trying to rewrite it to use the new WP 1.5 XMLRPC libraries is non-trivial.
Fortunately the risk can be mitigated pretty easy with some Apache .htacess directives:
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from localhostorder deny,allow
deny from all
allow from localhost
Placing that in the wp-includes directory keeps the older XMLRPC files from being accessible (and exploitable) from the Internet yet still allows them to be used by wp-keitai-mail. Tons easier than finding a new moblogging solution
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Nov 05
mini me
We found out this morning that a daughter will soon be joining the Cellini ranks. Aria is expected to come into the world on April 3, 2006.
Being the geeky Dad that I am she already has her own web site which is pretty impressive for a girl who is still 143 days away from her birth day