We are the Champions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that Kristen and I should be adopted as the State Mascots as we’ve obviously brought the Columbus good luck – two football games and the hockey last Wednesday night. This was a close game when it was down to the last second though!!!!!!
I didn’t realise that RoadRunner users got scanned so much! A quick look at the firewall log shows 800+ scans of this pc between 8am and 4.30pm. Most of them looking for netbios sessions, but some doing trojan port scans.
The Holiday is almost over now 🙁 I’ve got quite a few photos ready to upload, but I’ll do that when I get home and have a chance to edit and prep them before uploading. It will also give me something to do to beat the jetlag.
The Columbus BlueJackets won on Wednesday night. I had a really neat time watching the game, and it wasn’t until I shouted at them to stop farting around that we actually scored a goal! (I was witness to the fastest ever goal against them in 14 seconds!) I think they were lucky to win as the St Louis Blues were a better team (in my opinion).
The Buckeyes play their Football game on Saturday against Michigan, so that should be a good match – I’ll be watching that one on the tv as the tickets are a teenyweeny bit out of our price range.
It’s snowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We now have cable and everything is hunkydory. PS – I ate frogs legs for the first time last night and they don’t taste like chicken – more like fish actually!
Went bowling yesterday for three hours! The local bowling alley has a special deal of 10 bucks for three hours which was a really good deal. They also let us have two lanes for the three of us, so we were bowling nearly all the time. I got my best score ever (twice) 149 and 177 so I was very pleased. Towards the end of the three hours I started to experiment with how I bowled. I have not been able to “run” with the ball towards the lanes previously and never really been able to try it – as I’ve always wanted a respectable score and its so expensive in the uk to just muck around. This time I had the opportunity and my brother-in-law is a good bowler too so he gave me some tuition. By the final game (of 6 or 7) I was able to bowl fairly well at a run and that is how I got the 149 score. The 177 was bowling as I usually do. I also got two Turkeys!
Now I’m off to eat a cinnabon or two for breakfast
Got my first spam from signing up on a guestbook – Hey Kelly – afraid yours is the guilty party 🙁 They were offering me the klez removal tool – which was probably the virus itself! After all if you have klez on your computer then you don’t have an av tool, so how are you going to know that the unsolicited attachment is not klez itself! On other anti-virus software news, I am going to remove mcaffee from this computer as it really is pants. When this machine got infected (twice) with Magistr it was unable to repair the files and they had to be deleted – and they were a few windows files! I updated the software by hand (as there is no automatic update facility) and it found yet another virus on the computer – downloader-aw trojan. However, when you look on their website to get more information on this virus – it is not listed! The nearest that I could find is that it was created using a virus toolkit. If that is the case, then how come the software didn’t pick it up – the toolkit has probably been around for yonks! Norton’s AV is going on real soon!
Update Instructions on removing downloader-w trojan are on mcafee’s site (note name difference!)
Time flies when you are on holiday. We’ve now been away for a week – and already we’ve had thanksgiving (yesterday) and today is Christmas – amazing! As there was a *cough* *cough* mixup with the dates of thanksgiving, we are returning home before the actual date, so it was decided to hold thanksgiving early. Our neighbours must have thought we were mad as there was a turkey cooking on grill outside, christmas carols playing on the stereo and a tree being decorated. We are doing Christmas today as it means we can have the family time and swap presents whilst most of us are in the same place. On another note, the Buckeyes won yesterday!!!! (First time I’d seen a football match properly and I understood most of what was going on.) We’re off to see an ice hockey game Wednesday evening which should be fun.
Almost half way through my hols – and this is the first time i’ve posted to the blog! It wasn’t until yesterday that I actually got to use a computer – and then it was to try and fix the parent-in-laws computer. We got some extra memory for the computer as it only had 64MB in – but the computer would only recognise half the chip. I suspected it was to do with the speed of the memory, and I got an email response (the same day!!!) from gateway confirming it – so it’s back to Staples this morning to swap the memory chip. I also got a 128mb card for the digital camera as I filled the 16mb one up with one day of shooting so I have loads of photos ready to be uploaded and a nice empty card to fill up again! I also get a 11 bucks rebate as the card is cheaper at compusa and staples pricematch 🙂
Newzcrawler has come out with another point release – this time to do with MT’s category API. In other news, I had a reply back from tgtsoft who do the skins thing for XP telling me to download the latest version (which I am sure I had done) but it turns out the version on the website is 1.01M but the download page is broken 🙁