In July of 2002 my family went to Sizzler to eat. I can't remember what went wrong, but we ended up with $40 in comps that sat on my desk ever since. Tonight, Emilie and I went back to Sizzler to use our certificates. The dinner was okay, but the best part is that I ate four different animals in one meal. I don't remember ever consciously doing this before but I enjoyed it about as much as can be expected. I ate cow (steak), pig and chicken (malibu chicken) and shrimp (shrimp). I don't like shrimp, but I ate one of Emilie's just so I could say I ate four types of meat. Stupid? Sure. Do I care? Not really.

On a lighter note, the Dabber virus is kind of funny - it takes advantage of a security flaw in the Sasser virus.

On a more serious note, I'm becoming converted to Panda Software for virus protection. I will not use McAfee for anything - the software is no more effective than anything else, but is poorly written, difficult to use and riddled with annoyances. Symantec (aka Norton) is reasonly good as far as the program goes, but it doesn't tend to catch as many viruses, it's slow to provide updated definitions and it sucks up a lot of bandwidth on a corporate network. Trend Micro seems to be pretty good. Their definitions are definitely better than McAfee and Symantec, but Panda rocks them all. In each case that I've used it, Panda finds more viruses and effectively cleans more of them than any of it's competitors. Trend Micro finds almost as many, but can't always clean them. Plus, if you want to purchase the program - rather than just use the online scan - you can purchase it for just $20, which is significantly less than the others. This is mostly just a rant, but my views on virus scanning are actively changing dramatically these days.