I sent her an SMS

I sent her an SMS confessing my affection. In that SMS I told her I loved her. Soon after the post, I got a reply, In that reply I saw a message Non Delivery Notification my sorrow

Query string vulnerability found on a website of DVD software vendor

I wanted to play a disc with CPRM copyright protection mechanism and tried to activate CPRM feature of my software online. The website showed my account, including my name, my address and my password reminder (my mother's name). Then I found by accident that the site exposes GET-based query string on the URL and that by changing that string then we can see other persons' personal data. I soon requested to the vendor first to delete my personal datum and then to stop that site. My datum was deleted, but the site remains alive. You should make sure that the vendor of the software that you want to buy has enough knowledge of web security.

The controversial Da Vinci Code did not refer to Marcel Proust. The etymology of Louvre is watchtower.

Arabic language course - NHK Educational TV

هل تعلم أن اليابان أيضا وشهورة بفن الخط

Figure Skating: Arakawa's misleading peace sign, not a victory sign

Torino 2006. Shizuka Arakawa won the gold medal, when she flashed a `"V" for victory sign' (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
It's one of typical misleading hand signals. In Japan, the V sign with two fingers does not mean victory at all. Asians use that sign with no particular meaning. See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign

(It's quite a long) way to go!

Yokohama Triennale

Don't read anything about that on wired.com.

By the way, it was the last day of the exhibition and I went to see it.At 17:00, the director of the Triennale and himself an artist, Tadashi Kawamata began talking, together with Tazro Niscino, who modifies public statues into private spaces by wrapping them with a room with hotel-like interiors. About 17:15 appeared Yoshitomo Nara (at last, for most of artimanie-groupies there). They said art may or may not change the world, but that depends on the audience.

What is an art? I have no idea, but an allegory: pictures in a classical museum are like animals in a zoo and audiences are spectators. In recent art exhibitions, like this time, artists are trainers of a circus. Audiences? they are animals dancing on artists' balls. But to speak out, audiences themselves want to be trainers-artists.