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My home workstation's either afflicted with a rootkit/Trojan after I upgraded to Firefox 3.6.2 and searched for a Get Smart! image on Google, or it's a component failure; id est, overheating graphics card, CPU, or memory module.

I've tried five AV programs so far to no avail.

This may drive me to Win 7 64.

I'll update y'all in a few.

JJB

The recently decided McConnell v. FEC has been derided by Washington Post and NY Times pundits as crass hypocrisy on part of the US Supreme Court, with Justice Alito taking special heat as point man for the controversy for "dissing" The Man as he dispensed his Received Wisdom during the State of the Union Address ( Read more... )

I loved her work from my first encounter, there at the very beginning, "Noble Mold", in Asimov's in the March 1997 issue ( Read more... )

My daughter KJ turned 18 today ( Read more... )

I'm little slow off the mark here. Philcon ended 22 November, a fortnight ago ( Read more... )

Today's playlist:

Goodnight Saigon -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6gZefW4yEA

Some Gave Their All -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXxWTpC1CM

Still in Saigon -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOfrnKqk3zw

You Fight for Me -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVAgC70oA4g

Pittance of Time -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ( Read more... )

     They won!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33172906/ns/technology_and_science-science/

As declared in my last post, this just award was long overdue.

JJB

We're approaching that time of year when the Laureates are announced.

In my consideration, long overdue is the award to Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburne for the 1984 elucidation of telomeres and telomerase.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_W._Greider

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackburn

We'll see if this year that oversight is ( Read more... )

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