Blog Retirement?

No, and I'm sure the 3 or 4 of you who frequent this blog will be glad to know that I haven't retired - at least not yet.

I spent last week finishing up another monster website (which has needlessly taken 6 months plus) but I finally got it done. Then I had planned to do some blogging over the weekend, but wound up getting my computer infected with some nasty browser-hijacking spyware. It took a good chunk of the weekend just to figure out how to undo what it had done to my pc and its registry.

Thank God for the kind folks out there who have created shareware like Ad-Aware and HijackThis - two great programs for searching your PC for adware/spyware and getting things fixed. And No, this is not an advertisement, just a recommendation since they got me out of a serious shitpie this weekend.

I did, however, learn some valuable lessons. The first is that firewalls do not stop all spyware. The second is that you should backup your critical PC data more often than every 6 months (or you'll be up until 2 am doing emergency backups due to your own stupidity).

I plan to get back to regular rants this week, so batten down the hatches, ye socialist dimocrats and hypersensitive nanny-state apologists.