Bad Brains I
Last night I dreamed that my forearm was achy so I slid all the meat off only to find that part of my bone was made of rock candy. It seemed to be rotting, so I broke it off and slid the meat back on to the good portion of the bone. I think I was in a bowling alley.

The only thing that seemed to concern me about the situation was that the meat on my arm was no longer very even and I wasn’t sure if I should stitch it up or just leave it as it was.

Jon.Virus.b
After being told of increased IRC traffic on our network, I set out to try to figure out what was wrong. I tracked the issue to a file called SecureAntiVirus.exe that held port 6667 open on the infected machines. As McAfee had no pattern file to detect the virus available, I submitted the file to them for review.

Normally, if McAfee knows about the virus but hasn’t included it in a pattern file, they return a previously created pattern file within 5 minutes. For the file that I sent, it took them about 45 minutes, making me think that I might have been the first person to submit the file to them. I’m not saying that I’m the first person in the world to discover this infection, but it seems likely that I was the first to submit it to McAfee. This may or may not be true, but this virus description page didn’t exist before my submission. Because it’s only the second unknown virus that I’ve “discovered,” I’m taking it.

It’s boring, but who cares: W32/Spybot.worm.gen.f

Bad Brains II
Even though my job has kept me very busy over the last week, throwing problems at me that were taking days of research to resolve, I find myself overly tired, but not disgruntled. After dealing with two particularly trying issues simultaneously, I found myself deep in thought. In a brief, but very serious moment, I thought,

“This would all work out faster if I just had two brains.”

When you view yourself as needing a processor upgrade, you might need a little time away from the computer.

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