Survival Notes

Doing some research on Survival stuff I cam upon SurvivorMan (a Discovery Channel series). In browsing through the related websites I came upon the following notes, but didn't have anyplace to store them, so I put them here for future reference.

www.lesstroudonline.com
The Psychology of Wilderness Survival, Gino F. Ferri
Wilderness Living and Primitive Skills, John and Geri McPherson
Bushcraft, Mors Kochanski
Outdoor Survival Skills, Larry Dean Olsen
The Art of Survival, Cord Christian, Troebst (out of print)
Any of the Peterson Field Guides (wild edibles, etc.)

Les first started by taking every and any survival course he could find, including at Humber College in Ontario and Prairie Wolf in Kansas.

Mobile Blogging

It's been a while since i tried mobile blogging.

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That was sent from my phone. Apparently it had been too long since I tried mobile blogging, because blogger sent me anther new blog name and claim token. The random blog name (sawfob327) was no where near as good as my previous randomly generated blog name (elfbug266), so I didn't hesitate in merging it with this blog.

Anyway, mobile blogging is alive and well. A bit like twitter, but without the social networking hooks.

You know you are getting too much press when...

…some of the source code for your homepage is leaked and, well, anyone cares.


Facebook Source Code Leak Raises Security Questions
Examining the leaked code reveals vulnerabilities in Facebook's applications that could be exploited, a developer said.

By K.C. Jones
InformationWeek
August 14, 2007 02:25 PM


Facebook source code has been leaked on the Web, and that's raising some serious issues about the site's security and data privacy.
Source code from the social networking site's main index page appeared on a blog called Facebook Secrets recently and remained there Tuesday. The blog does not contain any other postings.

"A small fraction of the code that displays Facebook Web pages was exposed to a small number of users due to a single misconfigured Web server that was fixed immediately," a Facebook spokesperson said Tuesday. "It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way."

Still, developer Nik Cubrilovic wrote in a TechCrunch blog posting that the leaked code could reveal vulnerabilities in Facebook's applications that could be exploited.

"From just this single page of source code, a lot can be said and extrapolated about the rest of the Facebook application and platform," he said. "At a quick glance, I know that I can see some obvious things in the code that both reveal certain hidden aspects of the platform and give a potential attacker a good head start."

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More at:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201800144&cid=nl_IWK_daily

(FYI, I found a copy of the leaked code and, yawn, it is about as intriguing as the aforementioned article).

From the 'Who Knew' Department...

On Cherubs...

A cherub is a mighty angel. One of the functions of the cherubim was to serve as guardians. These angels guarded the entrances to both the tree of life (Gen 3:24) and the Most Holy Place (Exod. 26:31-33). Two cherubim of hammered gold were part of the ark of the covenant (Exod. 25:18-22). The living creatures carrying God's throne in Ezekiel 1 may have been cherubim.(from Wikipedia).

And I thought they were just cute cubby little angels. I guess you don't want to get on the wrong side of one of those.

About the 35W Bridge...

The big news this week was the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. This has been world news, a fact that is supported by me living in the same metro area as said bridge but able to read about it on the Sydney (Austrailia) Morning Hearld newspaper's website. Why read about it there? Just to confirm to myself that it wasn't myopia-- I'm right here, of course it is news and I can relate and sense the importance. But was it really a big deal to other people? The answer has been given over the last few days, a resounding YES.

This is a Big Deal, but what does that mean? It is big in a physical sense, big in the time to fix sense, and big in the human lives were lost sense. Yet I don't know what to write about it.

The physical scale is hard to describe with words in a worthy way. You can look it up in newspaper archives today and find phrases like 67 feet above the water, a couple thousand feet long, sixty cars, an unknown number of missing people. All just words that fail to convey the sheer Big-ness of this Deal.

The time to fix enormity is hard to write about because no one knows. 2-3 years is a long time in a culture raised on 30 minute sitcoms and 30 second sound bites.

It is hard to write about the human lives that were lost because I didn't know them but I think they deserve a better description than some stranger (me) could string together with a few words.

So maybe I've said enough. Maybe if I'm right, that this is a Big deal that anyone could relate to, then you already have and nothing else needs to be said.

(note: the photo is from the Minneapolis Star Tribune).