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Month: May 2009

  • 40 days in a row #twit2fit

    I’m still able to run today after running my 3×800 intervals yesterday @ 6:53 pace. I dropped down to 172 pounds from an average of well over 175, mainly from both lack of food and liquids yesterday. I wouldn’t recommend it. Today’s run was a 3.2 mile hill run at 3% incline on a Precor…

  • Repaired my first malware infection without obvious clues as to the source

    The last few times I’ve repaired a malware infestation, there have been some obvious clues to the infection source:  loads of “free” games, a couple suspicious browser toolbars, p2p file sharing software with a hefty repository of downloaded content, visits to questionable sites, etc…  This infection had none of the above. It manifested itself (probably…

  • Is this really an Explorer issue?

    via Windows 7 Fail – F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab. Okay, I get annoyed with Windows’ design on a regular basis, but I don’t know that defaulting to showing file extensions for known file types is the right answer. I guess the real problem is that Windows 7, like every other Microsoft-designed Operating…