Some time ago I noticed that Microsoft Outlook recognizes calendar invitations received via email and, before being accepted or declined, automatically adds these entries to my calendar.  When I first experienced this, I thought it was a bit odd and accepted it as a feature.

It's been over a year since I posted anything to this site. Keeping a site up-to-date is a lot of work. Along with creating and publishing content, a site requires constant maintenance of the technology and moderation of comments.

Earlier this month a vulnerability in a Ruby standard library was announced (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2009/06/09/dos-vulnerability-in-bigdeci...). Since this site was running Mephisto (http://mephistoblog.com/), an open source Ruby on Rails blogging system, I needed to take some action.