Upgraded to the new Adobe Reader 7.0 today. Looks surprisingly simpler (more 'bare bones' - no transparency on the splash screen), but doesn't open any faster than previous versions. (Despite the hype. Using a startup pre-loader doesn't count.)

It's hard to not notice all the recent PHP/perl server security holes in the news lately - I counted seven within the holiday season (but there may've been more): the Santy family of worms (A, B, C - which prey upon the phpBB script injection vulnerability), the Spyki worm [Net-Worm.Spyki.d], the Anti-Santy worm [Net-Worm.Perl.Asan.a], and the more generic Perl.PhpInclude vulnerability.

I was happy to see that Blog awareness was definitely up in 2004. It was also good to read about the recent history and the current state of the LDS mission in Haiti. It's also encouraging to see that the Church is sending obviously needed aid to the tsunami victims.