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Today was the first full day of legalized same sex marriages in San Francisco. The anticipated protesters never appeared. Overall, everything went really smoothly with plenty of volunteers and staff on hand to assist. At one point in the morning, there were more press personnel than actual wedding couples. Here are a few shots from some of the ceremonies.

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The Exotic Erotic Ball is proud to announce its 7th Annual Blood Drive for FREE Tickets, October 11, 2007 at the Blood Center of the Pacific’s Irwin Center office, in San Francisco. Donors giving blood according to the instructions provided at this link will receive one FREE General Admission ticket to the Exotic Erotic Ball, Saturday, October 27, 2007, a value of $69.00. http://em.exoeroball.com/100807/

The Exotic Erotic Ball has long fostered strong ties to the San Francisco Bay Area community. Over the years, the Ball has distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities supporting causes such as helping the victims of homelessness, AIDS, domestic violence, child abuse, and has always supported freedom of expression and First Amendment Rights. The Ball hosts an annual blood drive with Blood Centers of the Pacific and in 2006, 50 donors gave 50 pints of blood and each received a ticket to the Ball. For 2007, legendary rap artist, Snoop Dogg, will perform in a charity concert at the Cow Palace Arena on Friday, October 26, 2007, as part of the Exotic Erotic Expo and Ball Weekend, with all funds being donated to the Healing Circle and other San Francisco Bay Area Charities. Thus far, the Ball has donated $45,000.00 to The Healing Circle through Snoop Dogg in July 2007. Snoop will return the next night, Saturday, October 27, 2007, as a special guest at the Ball, where he will join Tera Patrick and Danny Bonaduce as judges of the Ball’s world famous costume contests.

Toward the end of September 2006, Video IPod users started to report problems with the W32/RJump worm showing up on their PCs after installing the IPod. The infection occurs when a removable storage device or a mapped drive hosting a copy of W32/Rjump.worm is accessed and the user agrees to the auto run prompt for execution of the worm. W32/Rjump.worm creates a port exception for its backdoor component to bypass the built-in firewall of WinXp by executing the following netsh command.

%Windir%\%Sysdir%\cmd.exe /c netsh firewall add portopening TCP 16942 NortonAV

Today, Apple Computer announced on their website that they discovered that a limited number of the Video IPods sold after September 12, 2006 were infected with the RavMonE.exe virus (aka W32/RJump) at the manufacturing stage. They issued this statement on their website which included a cheap shot at Windows for not being more “hardy against such viruses” even though they were the ones to introduce the virus in the first place. That’s just a cheap shot and they should own up to their mistake without trying to shift blame on someone else. Aside from taking a swipe at Microsoft, they did little to explain how this worm got into the IPod to begin with. Just in case they remove it from their site, here is an excerpt of their statement:

“We recently discovered that a small number - less than 1% - of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left our contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. This known virus affects only Windows computers, and up to date anti-virus software which is included with most Windows computers should detect and remove it. So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem. The iPod nano, iPod shuffle and Mac OS X are not affected, and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free. As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.”

Because this worm propagates via mass storage devices, users who encountered this problem should scan all their removable storage devices like CF cards, flash drive, and removable hard drives in addition to scanning their PCs.

Fleet Week returns to San Francisco on October 5 starting with practice runs for the Red Bull Air Races and Blue Angels survey runs. The Blue Angels will perform Friday and Saturday but the weather forecast calls for rain on Thursday and partly cloudy on Friday so plans may change. Muni Pier will be admitted by paid tickets only. Other good spots include Marina Green and the Pier 39 area.

Apple released a major release of iTunes on September 12th. Among the major features is hard to find feature that allows you to manage multiple music libraries. After starting iTunes, hold down the option key on the Mac or Alt key in Windows. The Shift key also works in Windows. You will be prompted to ‘Create a new library’ or ‘Choose a library’. The feature comes in handy if you want to sort your music by iPod models or simply create a separate library for iPod synching vs another one that will not be synced to the iPod.

Check here for more information of the new features of iTunes 7.

Even more features.