Digital Brainwaves

I think I just bowled the best combination of two games in my life last night.

I’ve bowled single games over 100 in the past, as part of two- or three- game nights, but I don’t think I’ve ever done as well on a combination of two: 129 and 158.

Both games were helped with strings of five (first game) and six (second) straight marks during the game. I guess I just got into a zone.

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Keep an eye out for a new trojan virus, known as the Storm Trojan. I’d been hit with it myself Thursday night.

No, not the virus itself… but a few people in China (according to the IP address) got it, and snared one of my domain names as a spoof domain from which to be sending spam/virus messages. None of my computers were affected, but I received a number of messages wherein a compromised computer sent out a message to a randomly generated email address at a real domain, spoofed as being from a randomly generated email address at my domain. The destination mailserver couldn’t deliver to a non-existant mailbox and returned the message to its “sender” — and since I’d previously set my domain to deliver all mail not defined for a specific existing mailbox to me, I was getting all sorts of random “mail returned undeliverable” messages — legitimate messages, but effectively viruses (since many mailservers attached the original message).

For the time being, this has meant disabling “catch-all” mode on my email.  I’ll see if I can turn it back on later.

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A couple weeks ago, I started to hear, instead of Paul Harvey, former Senator Fred Thompson filling in for Harvey’s morning news program. Having seen him on a number of movies, as well as in Law & Order, I thought it was pretty cool to see he was doing something new, in addition to L&O.

Bill Hobbs, however, thinks he might have other plans.

(Hat tip: Instapundit)

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Microsoft recently altered their service agreement for XBox 360 warranties. They no longer provide you a box in which to ship your hardware to them in case it requires warranty repair — you must provide a box and ship the unit to them yourself, and they will send it back to you in the same box you provided.

One gamer, having previously sent in an XBox 360 for repair under the previous agreement, in which Microsoft sent you a box, became fed up with the whole deal and decided to just send in the machine in a box. Therefore, he’s seeking assistance in paying for a box.

Because, by “box”, I mean “40-foot shipping container.”

(Hat tip: Dvorak Uncensored)