Well, Friday went pretty well. In case you somehow still don't know, it was my birthday. Went to Chipotle for lunch which drew a decent crowd and was good. The workday went pretty well, basically caught up on stuff. Replied to some emails which were over a year old. It's interesting working in an environment where email is the prevalent means of communication. Things come up, aren't important or other things are more important, so they just sit there for weeks or months and then they come back up and things continue like nothing happened since everyone has the whole history of what happened. After work I ended up going and hanging out with some friends who I don't hang out with all that often. Dave brought his camera as usual and took pictures. That was fun since it was layed back and was pretty much just sitting around and chatting. Ross and I chatted for quite a while about interesting stuff. After that I went home and was finishing up some stuff. Then I got this really odd email along with notices for attempted posts to a couple mailing lists, and it looked like a virus but none that I recognised. I grabbed the zip file and threw it on a fileserver to let it scan, but it found nothing. Finally figured out it was Bagle/Beagle.C, which was only discovered Friday so even the daily DAT update wasn't new enough to catch it. I submitted a blackhole request for it and told all the mail servers to reject messages since it didn't identify them yet. Then more started coming in I had four machines blocked, and then Nick happened to come online since he was at Bethel and started yanking them off the network. Much better way of dealing with them, and more effective than just blocking from our servers. After 9 of them and a bit of dead time, we called it a night after changing the webmail login screen to have a warning and leaving a page for my boss to figure out some sort of block on the mail servers in the morning. In the morning the mail servers were configured to block all small zips for the weekend, hopefully with something more fine grained by Monday. I also changed the virus/blackhole notice management system to read my email from the servers and automatically submit requests to yank machines from the network when they started sending lots of messages, which meant no more having to read them. Which is a good thing since I got 2845 blocked email notices from on campus machines on Feb 28 alone (and 77 so far today). The craziest part about this worm is it sends a zip file containing a .exe, and that exe has to be run to get the virus. I almost hope a significant number of people get this and are yanked from the network. It doesn't do much damage (opens a backdoor, and since by default resnet incomming connections are blocked...), but it'd probably make them more careful with attachements at least for a while. Saturday evening was dinner with the family at Applebees, which was good. I got my mail, which included my check for $13.86. Other things of interest include my Jabra EarBoom Winder headset arriving. I've used it a decent amount over the past day or so, and like it a lot so far. It doesn't sound bad (I like it a lot better than my dad's EarWave Boom, and it seem more comfortable too). It's very light so it doesn't get uncomfortable after wearing it a while, and it has a very nice way of setting on the edge of the ear without putting pressure on any one point. The only drawback I've found so far is it sorta uses gravity to hold itself in, and hooks in a way that takes advantage of the boom's leverage, so if you're laying on your back it tends to slide slightly and you have to push it in again after 10-15 minutes. Given that it has the nice windup cord, very good sound, and is so comfortable, that can be forgiven though. Well, Sunday means a crowd at my house. I should get some rest.