Friday, January 25, 2008

Another Poll

Still battling with computer viruses. That's right: Plural. It looks like the first virus I got knocked out my virus protection software, thereby enabling another one to slip in. I think I've fixed one of my two computers — the one I'm writing this on — but the other one's going to need professional help. And now I'm too far behind to take it in...or even to post much here for a while.

But I thought I oughta put this up. Remember that that is not a poll as to who you'd like to see be the Democratic nominee. This is just a prediction on who you think it'll be...though I threw in Mike Gravel just for laughs. I also put in Someone Else even though it's been some time since I heard anyone suggest that Al Gore or anyone else could still get into the race. Someone Else beat Ron Paul, Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter in our Republican poll so let's see how he or she does here. This poll will close in one week.

• Posted at 5:31 PM · LINK

Virus News

At first, I wasn't too concerned about finding a virus on my main work computer. After all, I have my backup computer. Then I found the virus was also on my backup computer. "Oh, well," I thought. "At least I have both of them backed up to external hard drives." Then I found out that the virus had made my external hard drives inaccessible. At some point in there, I started to get concerned.

I think the data is all there on both computers and both external drives. It's just a matter of getting to it and getting rid of the virus. I think I have it largely off one of the two computers but there's a lot of cleaning to do. You may not hear from me for a little while...

• Posted at 1:22 AM · LINK