Well, Leopard is finally launched, my whole family attended the launch party at the Willow Bend Apple store and we all got a free t-shirt.

Universally the best way to share, search, store, sort and sell your photos online.

I’ve added some new pictures to my Zooomr account over here.

This article brings to mind a discussion I had with one of my uncles earlier this year about ad supported services and where the money actually comes from and how you as a consumer eventually pay for it by increase in prices to offset advertising costs.

The article discusses crowding in the online advertising market and how smaller websites may be at a disadvantage.

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Here is an update I put on my website, jordancronin.com

Edit: The DreamHost deal still seems valid as of 2007-10-2 (October 2nd, 2007)

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Wow. It is hard to believe that it has been over a year since I posted something on here, although, I have made changes to the site and added a few things (Like my ma.gnolia bookmarks which I just now moved to the bottom of the page). I tend to post more often on my LiveJournal, probably because it is easier than editing html, like I’m doing now.

I am planning on completely revamping my website in the future – maybe using a Content Management System plus some other software so I can have all of my stuff (pictures, posts, videos, online bookmarks – think del.icio.us, etc.) all under my control.

My website is no longer being hosting on my servers at home because the ISP I’m using switched all of the “residential” accounts to private IP’s now, making it impossible for me to host my website. Come to think of it – (I’m making this up as I type) If there was a computer with a public IP address configured to maintain a connection with a computer having a private IP address, initiated by the private IP computer, and the DNS records point to the public computer, theoretically, if the public computer was programmed to act as an intermediary and forward all of the requests to the private computer then it would work. The private computer *could* spoof the from IP address to that of the public computer and could directly reply to the client computer (would that work?).

That leads me to another idea (security related)…
If an attacker knew that a computer was communicating… oh – never mind that’s what TCP sequence numbers are for… But… If the NAT/Firewall was not very smart, and just looked at IPs and the “victim” pc was communicating with an IP that the attacker could guess, would it be possible for the attacker to get through or behind the firewall, directly to the “victim” computer or at least to send some packets to them and somehow exploit a vulnerability in the victim pc? I don’t know.

Well… I have to go work on some stuff, including, moving the rest of the web sites on my server over to my new host, DreamHost (that link has my refferal number), and, by the way, they had this great deal on the day that I found I needed to get a web host that enabled me to get a year of hosting for $9.40 (it was their 10-year anniversary).