I’ve upgraded Wordpress to 2.0.4.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems.

The Wordpress Development Blog mentions that version 2.0.4 fixes more than 50 bugs and is a security release — so upgrades are recommended.

The OpenBSD team has released a patch for OpenBSD 3.9 which fixes “a potentially exploitable off-by-one buffer overflow” in httpd’s mod_rewrite (CVE-2006-3747).

I’ve created a binpatch for i386 again using Gerardo Santana’s Binpatch System.
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I had read The Death and Life of Superman before. But after seeing the Justice League Unlimited episode “Hereafter” where the world (and the Justice League) has to move on after Superman’s funeral, I wanted to read it again.

The novelized version of the comic book has three sections, mirroring the comic books: Doomsday, Funeral For a Friend and Reign of the Supermen.

After a brief telling (mostly through memories) of Superman’s history, we learn that Clark has proposed to Lois (she said yes) and he told her his secret. While giving a rare interview, Superman learns that the Justice League is fighting (and losing to) a huge villian: Doomsday. He abruptly leaves the interview to join the battle.
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Marvel’s 1602 is an 8 issue series that puts Marvel villians and heroes in the year 1602.

I have to admit, I’m not very familiar with Marvel’s heroes. I know Spiderman from the movies and the cartoons. I only know X-men from the movies. And I had heard of Nick Fury (and Michael Knight… er… David Hasselhoff’s TV movie), but knew nothing about him. When I first started reading, I was bored and couldn’t get into the story because I didn’t associate with the characters I had seen so far: Fury and Dr. Strange.

Since I had borrowed the books, I didn’t want to hold onto them too long and I at least wanted to read through it. So, I gave it a second shot. Almost immediately after getting past my previous attempt, I was hooked (dang, had I read one more page). I was hooked.
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In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Brian Hiatt spends 5 days with Pearl Jam during their US Tour. The interview, mostly with Eddie Vedder, gives a lot of (at least to me) persiously unknown information about my favorite band.

Eddie and the band talk about how they dealt with stardom in the early 90’s, deaths of those around them and the origins of the name Pearl Jam…
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