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.

هل عندك هاتف؟ عندي هاتف هل هزا ماء النيل؟ شربت ماء النهر.

This must be a pen

Everybody makes mistakes, and especially when you try to write foreign languages. I do very much, of course. That said, we cannot help laying eyes on some funny product names. They don't mistake --- they don't even try to be correct. The grammatical correctness is not important, because a foreign language functions as a sign for exoticism or a [false] pedigree certificate:

"Je préfère des sons chauds" ("I prefer hot sounds")

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"Viva Nap" sanitary napkin.

Help her find a better hobby.

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"Aid Helper" adhesive bandage.

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And finally comes :

"Aid Helper Supporter".

and who assists that supporter? Again, don't blame nor laugh at foreigners for mistakes if they want to communicate. The examples above are not for communication. They are not for English speakers, but they are signs/designs.

Matsuken Samba  : Shogun plays Samba

First, see this ---
A shogun with golden kimono plays samba. homepage
Actually, he, Ken Matsudaira, is a TV actor famous by a drama Abarembo Shogun, in which he plays a role of Shogun.

Content Management System : Magnolia

A wiki-like system. To try a demo, click the link above.

My DSL is disconnected frequently

I'd been happy in October with my 5Mbps DSL. Now it slows down to 128kbps plus repeating half-a-minute disruptions, followed by 10sec ephemeral connections.

Ô vraiment marastre Nature,
Puisqu'une telle c'nnexe ne dure
que du minuit jusques à 00:01!

Now I am posting with trad 40kbps modem. I know that the situation is far worse in the rest of the world, however, this instinct toward the speed... something druggy is here.

My vote set

(murder, abortion, gay) = (NG, OK, OK)
I still understand of the people who insist: (NG, NG, NG), (NG, NG, OK) or (NG, OK, NG) because those theories are at least consistent, if not approvable.
What is incomprehensible is that there are people with (OK, NG, NG).
The word pro-life is an irony.

On that election

I had not found a good word to describe my impression before I saw a logo of a toilet roll package sold in Japan:

Peter Jennings for President

Not really. Or whoever.
When the automatic voting machines, ie machines for vote and machines who vote, are counting and recounting each religion, Mauritania is fighting against the illiteracy. (Agence mauritanienne d'information).

Eskerrik asko,

Blex

For pro-Bush American citizens

You have said ``Leave us alone. This is our country. '' ...
One thing to consider: this world is not only yours. Once, black people, or women, they did not have right to vote. Now they have it, provided if they have American citizenship. You might think it's natural, but that's not the whole story. A presidental election of a country usually affects the country only. If this were the case, you could vote for anybody. However, you like it or not, America is a country whose policies might, say, benefit or kill , us people in the rest of the world. What's important here is that we (the rest) don't have right to participate directly in that American political process which would affect our future.
Though I know my writing is poor, I wrote this because I cannot help but hope.

Nodame Cantabile  #11

will be published January 13th 2005, according to the author. This info was on the author's site. That site also shows some extras, ex. this.

Who is loyal supporter of Bush?

Osama bin Laden.
Osama adresses; Americans get scared; vote for Bush; `Beat those Arabs!'; `Yankee go home!'; FOX News! Al-Jazeera! captives! weapons! found! misreport!
Good job, Osama.

Is Bush wired?

PopuloCheat™ Receiver GWB-2004 Not suitable for use in the presidential elections

Alumni meeting

Everybody except me has grown. My first love is cute even today. And I -- shemelessly confessed my past love to her. She smiled back, and said to me that she was happy to hear that. Maybe that is an end of the story, but I was also very happy that she's become a wonderful woman as expected.