Day: February 28, 2007

After long (five seconds give [not] or take 4 seconds), I have decided that learning INTERCAL just isn’t gonna make the cut. Herewith some sample code:

DO (5) NEXT
(5) DO FORGET #1
PLEASE WRITE IN :1
DO .1 <- '?":1~'#32768$#0'"$#1'~#3 DO (1) NEXT DO :1 <- "'?":1~'#65535$#0'"$#65535' ~'#0$#65535'"$"'?":1~'#0$#65535'" $#65535'~'#0$#65535'" DO :2 <- #1 PLEASE DO (4) NEXT (4) DO FORGET #1 DO .1 <- "?':1~:2'$#1"~#3 DO :1 <- "'?":1~'#65535$#0'"$":2~'#65535 $#0'"'~'#0$#65535'"$"'?":1~'#0 $#65535'"$":2~'#0$#65535'"'~'#0$#65535'" DO (1) NEXT DO :2 <- ":2~'#0$#65535'" $"'":2~'#65535$#0'"$#0'~'#32767$#1'" DO (4) NEXT (2) DO RESUME .1 (1) PLEASE DO (2) NEXT PLEASE FORGET #1 DO READ OUT :1 PLEASE DO .1 <- '?"':1~:1'~#1"$#1'~#3 DO (3) NEXT PLEASE DO (5) NEXT (3) DO (2) NEXT PLEASE GIVE UP

‘Nuff said?

[OK, enough from the peanut gallery. I thought it was funny… *hmph!* Oh, well, enough lunchtime fun… ]

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Trackposted to Stuck On Stupid, The Random Yak, and basil’s blog, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe, AND to The Trouble With Angels, where Diane’s midweek open trackback post is all that it’s cracked up to be…

FWIW, from eWeek:

New Storm Worm Spreading Via Blog Posts

A Storm worm variant using both e-mail and Web sites to infect Windows-based PCs is injecting itself into the responses people are leaving on blogs.

Dmitri Alperovitch, principal research scientist at Secure Computing, told eWEEK that the worm is injecting itself into the operating system as a rootkit and is capable of intercepting Web traffic.

When a user with an infected system visits a bulletin board or posts to a blog, the worm inserts a malware into his or her comments. The line asks readers to look at a fun video and contains a link leading to a Web site where the malware is waiting to reinfect more users.

Check the article.

Yep. A linkfest. May not be much else at twc today, so knock yourself out. Link to this post and track back.

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Meanwhile, via email (from HH), this (slightly edited) list of handy tips. *heh*

Eleven Step Guide to Being Handy Around the House [#11 is my fav]

1. If you can’t find a screwdriver, use a knife. If you break off
the tip, it’s an improved screwdriver.

2. Try to work alone. An audience is rarely any help.

3. Despite what you may have been told by your mother, praying and cursing are both helpful in home repair … but only if you are
working alone.

4. Work in the kitchen whenever you can … many fine tools are
there, it’s warm and dry, and you are close to the refrigerator.

5. If it’s electronic, get a new one … or consult a twelve-year-
old.

6. KISS: Get a new battery; replace the bulb or fuse; see if the tank is empty; try turning the switch to “on”; or just paint over it.

7. Always take credit for miracles. If you dropped the alarm clock
while taking it apart and it suddenly starts working, you have
healed it.

8. Regardless of what people say, kicking, pounding, throwing, and shaking sometimes DOES help.

9. If something looks level, it is level.

10. The politician *spit* principle: If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.

11. Above all, if what you’ve done is stupid, but it works, then it
isn’t stupid.