Sunday, November 04, 2007

evening

Carlo Says, “Hai”

early morning

BlogWorld Expo - Is Anyone I Know Going?

Is anyone going to be in Vegas next week?  Friends, acquaintances, people I’d like to be friends or acquaintances?  The only people I know are just people I know of, not even people whose blogs I follow regularly, I don’t think.  Oh, and my employer.  So, if you’re reading this right now and you’re going to BlogWorld, speak up.  Leigh-Ann is going with me, but her, I already know.  I was going to talk about biblical senses and stuff, but that’s not necessary.  But hey, our 10th anniversary is this month, on the 15th.  And they said it wouldn’t last.  I’m kidding.  No one said that.

So, anyway, who’s going BlogWorld?

terribly early in the morning

Congratulations Mac Users - You’re Now Popular Enough For Malware, W00T!

I think I’ve made my opinion clear numerous times about the holier than thou, my computer is better than yours, Mac users.  I’m not talking about Mac users who have their ownership egos fully in check and know that their computer is only as good as the user, but the people who have annoyed me for years going on and on about how Macs are so safe, that they don’t get viruses, don’t get hacked, yadda yadda yadda.  All of us sane people knew that it was because Macs were only a small percentage of the computer market, and they were more expensive than PCs, so your average idiotic virus creating jerk wasn’t interested in bringing down like thirty-seven computers.  They’d rather ruin 37 million computers.

Congratulations, Steve Jobs, your marketing has worked.  Your computers are now getting more popular, so you’ve finally made them worthwhile to damage.  “Apple on Thursday confirmed reports of pornography Web sites where hidden software, once downloaded, could take control of an Apple computer.” The timing of the Trojan horse suggests there are more to come, say some computer and Internet security professionals. As Apple’s popularity rises, “the bad guys are taking Macs seriously now,” wrote Bojan Zdrnja, of the Internet Storm Center, which is led by the Escal Institute of Advanced Technologies.