It wasn’t a very restful weekend. I put over five hundred miles on the truck during the days, and didn’t get a full night’s sleep on Friday, Saturday or Sunday nights. Plus there were things that needed doing during the day (thus the five hundred miles) when I would normally take a nap to try and catch up on the missed sleep. A grand total of one email sent between friday at 5pm and this morning. Today? A handful of phone calls I have to make in the morning, a few emails that have to be sent, and then I think I’m going back to sleep.
- I guess it could be worse: in I Think I Also Had A Headache, Skot posts a list of illnesses he’s complained of since 2001. I thought I was in rough shape, but I don’t think I’ve had the Estonian Raving Brain-Worms. Yet. [izzlepfaff!]
- CNN cites a study that says Spam costing companies $22 billion a year, but it also says that the average person gets 18.5 spams per day. When I checked my email this morning, I had two hundred messages. Eightteen were not spam. [slashdot]
- Meanwhile, the Online security threat evolves, with fewer viruses and more phishing happening. That’s probably because computers are already full-up with spyware. [press-patch]
- So Why Does Windows Still Suck? Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn’t everyone on a Mac? Damned if I know, but I do know that my Windows XP machine spends 99% of its life powered down and off the net so it can’t get hacked. Even if it worked as well as my Macs (it doesn’t), I can’t see putting the thing on the ’net without spending more than the price difference on various software and hardware to keep the thing from getting infected. There’s probably a cheaper solution, but then that would take time, which is a different kind of expense. [slashdot]
- Speaking of spam, remember that even though pitchers and catchers report in just a over a week, those emails you’re getting about the Big Unit are probably still not about Randy Johnson.
- Good luck! Canadians Fight for Privacy, but their medical data is being held by US companies who would have to comply with requests for the data under USA-PATRIOT (and other US laws). The Canadian Government’s solution?
One thing legislation does is it tries to keep the actual physical data on this side of the border.
Yeah, that’ll help, especially since that Canadian Internet is all firewalled off from the one in the US. [wired] - There’s a Big Year Ahead for Como Zoo over in St. Paul, as a new visitor center is finished, giving the zoo new life. One of these days when I get a few minutes, I’ll probably go over there to look at it all and relax while watching the gorillas scratch themselves. [press-patch]
- For the past two years, Scientists [have been] Struggling to Make the Kilogram Right Again. Then again, it’ll take a while to count out 1025 atoms of gold. There’s more in the a pound of gold, a pound of feathers post over at mefi. [metafilter]