Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
It’s March 10th of 2007, which means that it’s almost time to try out the newly extended Daylight Savings Time. For most of the United States and Canada, Daylight Savings Time (DST) will be extended by four weeks this year, beginning three weeks earlier at 2AM tomorrow (March 11th) and ending one week later at 2AM on November 4th. Make sure that your computers and PDAs are up to date before midnight to avoid any Y2K7 issues, and turn your clocks ahead one hour before turning in for the night to comfortably remind yourself about the hour of sleep that you’re about to lose.
The library at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (aka “Cal Poly Pomona”) is destroying books by the thousands as part of a nearly $60 million renovation project which will add, among other new facilities, a full-service Starbucks Coffee. The rampant disposal of nearly 30,000 books, journals, and serials “that had not been used for at least 10 years” and threats against the 300,000 books which have been kept in storage since the renovation began has prompted the action of one lone librarian.
A security update has been issued for Thunderbird. This release, version 1.5.0.10, includes a few security fixes and is recommended for all users. The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Thunderbird here.
Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
An urgent security update has been issued for WordPress. This release, version 2.1.2, removes “highly exploitable code” that was added to the WordPress download by a malicious individual.
This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code . . . Although not all downloads of 2.1.1 were affected, we’re declaring the entire version dangerous and have released a new version 2.1.2 that includes minor updates and entirely verified files. We are also taking lots of measures to ensure something like this can’t happen again.
WordPress 2.1.1 was the only download altered, so users of WordPress 2.0.9 should be safe. More information about this issue can be found here.
