Hearing voices in your head? Wondering where the happy pills have hidden themselves this week? Would you believe that mass hysteria is once again a hot topic? Seems a few hundred school girls in Mexico have been "smitten" with hysteria. Which is hysterical. Or perhaps histrionic. I've never been certain what the difference is there. Anyway, why fake cancer to get a good night's sleep when you can simply fall over and wallow in a little shared psychosis? I suppose it has a little more class than "the dog ate my homework" or "but I didn't realize the project was due today". Perhaps a little finger pointing and you could start an old fashioned witch hunt too?

And in case you should happen to fall over near a computer and still like a little WarCrack to brighten you day, you may be interested in SonicWall's nifty toy. They promise (for a fee, a trifle, the least little trinket) to keep your WoW account clean of nasty smelly malware, protecting your virtual assets while leaving you free to assert yourself in true style. Of course, if your mass hysteria has affected your fingers then you're in deep poo…but I'm sure you'll think of something.

Posted by StuR at 08:02 PM | Permalink

Ever feel like someone is watching you? Maybe someone is…

One of the machines was acting a bit funny so I checked it out. Looked normal, felt good, no real reason for it to run slow or act out of place. But the guy was convinced something wasn't right. So I dug a little deeper and he's right…someone is watching him. Pretty innocuous program actually, just keeping track of where he's going what he's browsing. But it made me think…who put it there? Who wants to know? Who is this guy that someone bothered to stick a watchdog on his laptop?

Maybe he's cheating on his wife…or feeding a gambling habit…or has somehow managed to draw the attention of the proverbial "wrong sort". Maybe he just opened something funny one day and someone somewhere is waiting to sell his system. Maybe he's some sort of unwitting beta tester in a larger marketing scam or product placement scheme. Maybe it's something. Maybe it's nothing.

But the real question is, what should I do about it? It's not getting anything serious, it's not doing anything serious and hell…maybe he deserves a little extra supervision. Who am I to say?

Posted by StuR at 07:58 PM | Permalink