“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

It has been about a year since I initially moved over my sites from Eleven2 to MediaTemple. That change was made mostly due to a major crash at Eleven2 and the hype surrounding MediaTemple’s grid sever. Around the same time I got a DreamHost account as well, to take advantage of their referral program, disk space, and to host subversion.

The past year with MediaTemple was kind of bumpy in the beginning, with all the issues they had with the grid server. Even though most of the grid server issues have been resolved over the past year, it still felt like I was not getting what was promised, and the price felt steep too. So, yesterday when I got the automatic renewal email, renewing the grid server account for another year for $160 (that’s minus $40 which was given back for the grid server failure), I decided it was time to move on.
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Ron Paul is a phenomenon on the web, and today he raised a shattering $3 million in 24 hours from over 35,000 donations.

However, this post is not about that, but about one of the Federal requirements for eligibility to donate to a political campaign I came across on the donation page of ronpaul2008.com.

2. I am a United States citizen or a lawfully-admitted permanent resident. If a foreign national, I have permanent resident status and hold a green card.

Being a permanent resident, one of my favorite things to say is, “Taxation without representation”. So, I found it funny that US Federal law allows a permanent resident to donate without representation as well. If you agree to the above section, and you are a permanent resident, then basically it’s telling you, “You can’t vote, but you sure can give us all the money you want.”

I currently have a few logos entered into competition. Do check them out and vote for them if you feel these logos deserve your much appreciated vote.

1. Connected Internet

2. Bangalore Barcamp 5

Computer security firm Intego is reporting a Trojan attack on Mac OS X which could potentially take control of your Mac. Here is an excerpt from their report

A malicious Trojan Horse has been found on several pornography web sites, claiming to install a video codec necessary to view free pornographic videos on Macs. A great deal of spam has been posted to many Mac forums, in an attempt to lead users to these sites

Even though Intego has made it sound like the biggest threat to hit Mac OS X security, you will have to be pretty desperate for this trojan to mess up your Mac. Sounds more like Intego trying to get some fame out of this more than it being a grave Mac OS X security flaw.

But what this kind of news and rising popularity of Macs can do is, make the dark side of the internet interested in more malicious attacks on Macs. Since general trend is to gravitate towards what’s popular, Apple might be in for some serious challenges of the malicious nature to the Mac OS X. Or maybe it’s just bad Karma!?