Doesn’t the icon that in this case, the milk case, says “open this way” remind you of something? Something that you thought was out of your life, and then it all of a sudden invades your Saturday morning coffee. It’s profane. That dear innocent milk, i hope it is - I’m giving the best of credits till it’s guilt has been proven, has been infected by the beast. It has come to my home, it has chosen a soft and holy moment for it’s Trojan invasion. God damn it.

I just saw an article on politiken.dk (a Danish newspaper) about a Valentine’s Day virus [da] apparently circulating. That, in itself, is nothing new — nor even unexpected, but along with the article they showed a picture of an old 12″ iBook. I guess the writers/editors just didn’t really think it all through, but the virus doesn’t run on OS X, but people will subconsciously make an association between a virus warning and the white Mac. And as a brand spanking new Mac-user, I’m against that.

I know it’s just a little thing and that it probably doesn’t really matter, but I do, none the less, think it’s a bit inconsiderate of Politiken.

Update (Sun, Feb. 18, 2007 15:49): As I said in the comments I actually mailed the author to mention it (not to whine or bitch about it) and today she sent me a nice and friendly reply and told me she wasn’t aware and that she’d try to keep such things in mind in the future. Apparently she’d had the same reaction from a lot of other readers. I guess the proper heading for this entry should have been Accidental FUD. Anyhow, it’s nice to know that you’re being taken seriously even though it was really just a silly little thing. :)

Ok, I have no idea how the exam went. I’m posting this from my phone as I’m still waiting to get my computer back. By the way, it performed extremely well during the exam - unlike the windows boxen in the room. I swear, every ten minutes the classic BIOS beep sounded. Hehe, that’ll teach ‘em. ;-p

Well, now to wait and see what the outcome is… I hope it’s sufficient.

Lately I’ve been studying pretty hard, which is why I haven’t been very active on the net. I’ll do my best to continue to focus on my studies, from which we can logically conclude that I’ll continue not to be as net-active as before.

But as the heading implies, I’ve also been working hard… On what you might ask - and rightly so because I haven’t told you yet. Foremost I’ve been working on an article about cleaning a Windows box for malware and keeping it clean. (Yeah, I’m not a Windows guy, but I was asked to write it for Windows, so I didn’t really have a choice — and besides, there is no real malware problem on *nix.)

Furthermore I’ve been working on a new design and codebase for lillesvin.net and I’ve even prepared a couple of surprises for the launch of the new site. I can’t (or rather: won’t) tell you what it is and I won’t tell you when I plan to launch the new site… Not yet. (Truth be told, I have no clue as to when it’ll be finished.)

Just registered myself a Jabber account, so now I can also be contacted via: madsen@jabber.org. Jabber is so much cooler than MSN/YIM/AIM and all the other clones, and the fact that one can setup ones own Jabber-server is pretty nice as well.. Perhaps a thing for Lillesvin some time in the future.

Well, I just wanted to say it and urge everyone to change to Jabber for instant messaging instead of those evil and closed (and let’s not forget ‘lousy’) protocols out there. So if you haven’t already tried it, give it a shot, who knows, you might like it… A lot… For Windows you could get Exodus or Gaim, for Linux you can use Gabber, Gossip or Gaim or one of the other millions of Jabber clients and finally, for the Mac users, iChat in OS X 10.4 (Tiger) will support Jabber, but until then, use Nitro or something.