Cameron's Thoughts

As you probably have noticed, I setup a Christmas theme on this site. I know, I totally suck when it comes to stylesheets and even if I knew what I was doing, I don't really have much of a taste for design anyway. But, I figured, what the hey. I spent over six months rebuilding this site earlier this year, I might as well take advantage of some of the things I built into it, like easily swappable stylesheets. So, I threw together this new theme. I pretty much just swapped the colors out with red and greens and found a public domain Christmas tree image and threw that in the background. Maybe I will try to improve on it before Christmas comes around. Oh, I also added a menu at the top there so you can switch back to the normal stylesheet if this is too distracting.

Ugh. Found out last night that my computer is infected with a virus. I tried opening the command prompt in Windows XP and it promptly closed by itself. After a reboot, it did give me some MS-DOS 16-bit subsystem illegal error of some kind. Since the only Internet connection I had at the time was a far away open WiFi connection and I was getting 1-2kB download speeds, I downloaded McAfee Stinger which is a small program that removes about 50 of the most recent common virus's. This is something I know about from work as I have recommended it a number of times. If you have a worm that is sucking up most of your bandwidth, many times this is the only thing you can successfully download. Anyway, that did remove one worm off of my machine. Now today, I downloaded Avast as I don't have any anti-virus software on my computer. This is another free program that we recommend to our customers at my work and I have used it on my other computer and it works great. This only problem is, it's been running for about and hour now, and has only scanned 34,000 files. I have 90,000 files on the disk. This could take forever. I guess I should get ready to go to work. I found out it's going to be hell tonight. Nearly half the people working tonight have called in sick. Fuck.