Virtual Thought

So Adrienne writes me this e-mail, a great e-mail, the finest of e-mails, an e-mail I cannot electronically reproduce in any form ever on pain of exquisite death. This puts me in mind of our upcoming trip to NYC which I’m generally very excited about. And I just finished reading “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” the main character of which is, among other things, a high-functioning autist so I’m now by my reader’s empathy a high-functioning autist as well.

After which I glance at the AdSense to see what Gmail thought of the e-mail:

Jesus Christ! It seems that the electronic voting machines in Flordia were illegally accessed during the presidential elections. Anyone else find it extremely, incredibly fucking odd that voting discrepancies are happening in a state where one of the candidate’s family members runs things?

We knew this would happen. There were people saying this over and over before the elections. And, look, they’re right. Good job.

Windows Vista is coming out soon for large values of “soon.” Among the features I am excited about include the improvements in Windows Explorer:

Yeah, yeah, I know… it’s a beta, blah blah blah. ( ;

Just so we’re all clear… Mac OS X has not had its first virus. The Oompa Loompa threat is a trojan. It disguises itself as a legitimate program (or, er, a JPEG in this case) that invites clicking. You then have to authenticate with your password. Only then will it run. I wouldn’t type in my password to look at a picture, would you? ( ;

It does spread via iChat… but only after it has been executed and authenticated by the user. Compare this to ActiveX virii on PCs that spread because the user went to a bad webpage… way different.

And I’m not doing this because I’m some rabid Mac guy… I just hate misinformation.

Some V-day poems.

From John:

so I was thinking of ways to get rid of scrotum wrinkles
so I search for “scrotum iron”
eBay of course pops up in “Sponsored Links”

Looking for Metal Balls?
Find exactly what you want today
www.eBay.com

I’m amazed it went from “scrotum iron” to “metal balls”
that’s some AI right there

Okay, Microsoft, please please please fix this before you put Visual Studio 2005 out.

VS keeps changing project files on me and it’s screwing up my source control. We’re using StarTeam at work and, every time I build, VS changes the types of form and control files in, oh, about half the project files in the solution from “UserControl” or “Form” to “Code”... and then, arbitrarily, back again. This happens even though I haven’t done anything of the sort inside the editor itself… it just happens on solution builds. So then, when I go to StarTeam and try to check in only the files I’ve modified I have to wade through the 30 or so project files that say they’ve changed even though I have changed nothing. WTF(What the fuck)?!?!? Don’t keep erroneously changing the types of those files on solution build! Don’t make it harder for me to do my job!