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My 50 year blogg (last post March 2059)

Flash security tools

The HP Web Security Research Group today released HP SWFScan, a free security tool for Windows that helps developers find security vulnerabilities in applications developed with the Adobe Flash Platform. We have found that developers building applications with the Flash Platform often leave security vulnerabilities unintentially in their code. Our group decided to develop SWFScan to help not only our customers but also developers around the world make the web a safer place.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/swfscan.html

 

 

Daily thoughts - the first of many..

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So got the blogg, using Twitter, already a linked in fan, and a few other Beta networks on Farrar's radar.  This is the first of as many personal bloggs I hope to create in the coming years.  I love the concept of blogging because it records my thoughts in a place which also enables me to create a Point Of View, which i can the share with the world.  It also enables me to be myself, and that includes talking about everything that is personal to me, including my family, my work, my loves and my hopes.  At 36 years of age i am almost 50% of the way through my life and i can't say I would change a thing.

Life is amazing because you meet so many cool people, not just in work but everywhere.  For instance, I had an appointment with the Vets a few years ago with my house rabbit: 'Dot' (Named after my Grandma).  in the waiting room I met a guy who then spent the next twenty minutes talking to me about his life.  He was 84, and half of his skull was a metal plate, he was a prisoner of war in Japan and met a beautiful local woman who he eventually fell in love with and married.  Whilst at POW camp in Nagasaki, the Americans decided to try out some new tech with devastating effect, and he saw some awful scenes that must live with him to the day..  The guy was a legend, but the vets was in Stoke on Trent, and i would never have even guessed that he would have been through such an amazing life.

The key thing for me which I took away from my 20minute meetings was that, at 80 years of age, my new friend had enjoyed a full life with good and bad experiences.  The culmination was that he was able to look back on a life that was rich with; well, life!  That’s the point, if everything as always good then the journey would be boring, right?

The final months of 2008 where difficult for my family; and me, however, looking back its has made us all stronger, and we aint dead.

Enjoy the journey folks, one day you will look back and appreciate every last little minute of it.

M

Victoria is loving her photography

Mrs Farrar has posted some of her photos onto FlickR.  She is not bad for an amateur :o).  She is starting her degree in September..good luck gorgeous!



http://www.flickr.com/photos/36171129@N05/sets/72157615039699448/