needless viral hysteria

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much has been made of the fact that there are no viruses for the mac, in contrast with windows which has approximately 108*2 to the power of 5 viruses.

but all over the mac internets today is the story of the first mac “virus”.

relax. the virus score is still windows three million, mac 0. or, depending on your definition of what constitutes a virus, windows three million, mac 1.

but it’s an eye opening experience, reading about this. and i’ve learned a lot.
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going gluten-free

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kirk is. i’m not going gluten-free, except that i kind of am, just by virtue of inhabiting space with him.

turns out that, ironically enough for someone who bakes constantly, he is allergic, or whatever, to gluten. the stuff that’s in wheat and oats and i don’t know what all else that holds it all together.

he hasn’t had any gluten for two weeks, and feels much better for it.
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news in brief

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from an article on saddam hussein’s forced attendance at his trial:

“degradation and shame upon you, raouf,” saddam yelled. later, he called the investigating judges “homosexuals.”

saddam, you wacky gay-basher/closeted homosexual you.

from an article on show dogs braving the new york blizzard conditions:

…the 1969 blizzard created even more havoc. that was the year the esteemed walter goodman was seen carrying his prize skye terrier from [madison square] garden while his mother trudged behind.

when someone chided goodman about paying more attention to his dog than his mom, he supposedly said: “i’m not showing my mother.”

proving once again that you should never piss off a queen holding a small dog.

my cat pd

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i recently added the “cast of characters” to the sidebar of the site–it’s basically a bunch of my cell phone pictures linked to various pages and blogs on my site.

i put up a picture of my cat pd–she’s the lovely black and white cat.

but with no story about pd to link it to, i linked the picture to a story about another cat.

my dead cat jeff. i know. tacky. so kirk has been after me to write a story about pd, so that her picture will not be linked to a weepy story about my dead cat.

here it is.
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how to do well by doing badly

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microsoft is going to charge people $49.95 a year to keep their computers free of viruses, spyware, keyboard loggers, and all of the other crap that infects pcs which run the windows operating system.

you can read about it here.

amazing. release an operating system so riddled with errors and bad coding that semi-literate pre-teens the world over can hack it, and then charge people a yearly fee to fix what they should have gotten right in the first place.

and, sadly enough, i’m sure it will be an enormous revenue stream for them.

people. please. apple.

leave it alone

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apparently, thanks to intrepid scientists with nothing constructive to otherwise occupy their time, mankind has discovered an area of new guinea that is being described as a “garden of eden”.

by the way, i know that the period should go inside the quotes–“garden of eden.” i think that’s silly, and it’s my site. but i digress.

here’s the link to the story–it’s on the bbc news site.

great. another pristine area we can screw up.
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site of the day

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osx.portraitofakite.com.

this site transforms a browser window into a mockup of the mac os x experience. i pulled it up on my pc at work, and it actually gave me a moment of panic before i remembered it was just a browser window and i could alt-tab away from it. that’s how realistic it is.

it certainly isn’t perfect, but it’s a great place to get an small taste of the os x experience, which in my opinion is far superior to windows. ever wonder why i rattle on so much about how great macs are? try this link and get a small sample.

if apple was smart, they’d flesh this out and feature it on their site.