world chess championship 2005

The most credible event yet to "unify" the world chess championship is underway in San Luis, Argentina. Anand, Topalov, Leko, Judit Polgar, Adams, Morozevich, Svidler and Kasimdzhanov are playing a double round-robin. Catch updates at Chessbase and Chesspro.

zonealarm 6.0 woes

ZoneAlarm is a wonderful firewall product for Windows from Zone Labs. There is a basic free version and a pay one with more features.

Their new version 6.0 has caused lots of grief. It breaks several programs and is difficult to uninstall. Version 6.0.667.000 broke my Cisco VPN client v4.6. After fiddling around with uninstalling and trying to delete all remnants of it, I found that the best instructions are at this post from the Zone Labs forum. I successfully went back to version 5.5.094 and things are working once again.

Katrina

An account from two conference attendees stuck in New Orleans about the lack of help from authorities for people remaining in the city.

Once again, at gunpoint, we were forced off the freeway. All the law enforcement agencies appeared threatened when we congregated or congealed into groups of 20 or more. In every congregation of "victims" they saw "mob" or "riot".

We felt safety in numbers. Our "we must stay together" was impossible because the agencies would force us into small atomized groups.

A blog by two Houston professors about the condition of evacuees at the Astrodome.