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To mimick No Doubt’s song:
“You got me feelin’ Hella Cold,
so let’s just keep on movin’!”

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“You chill me like you should
so let’s just keep on movin’!”

I’m talking to the city when I sing that. Even the river is cold!

Man, it’s hella cold today; it’s a lonely 1° at O’Hare Airport and 3° at Midway Airport!

Riding the train this morning, I saw a woman with a zip-up fleece thing as her coat. I started to feel bad for her walking around wearing that flimsy fleece zip-up in this cold weather. Then I got to thinking, ‘if she can’t afford a coat, why wouldn’t she go to the second-hand store or a consignment shop and buy a used one?’ Man, if it’s *that* cold outside I’d do it in a second. Some of that clothing used to belong to people who’ve passed away; plus, if you go to one in a high-class area, you *will* find some high-class stuff! Anyway, I stopped feeling sorry for her after that and thought about giving her money and saying, “Here’s ten bucks, go to a thrift store and get yourself a decent coat.”

Last night on the train ride home I was reading the fine print on an ad about a chance to win a new BMW by buying a box of Godiva Chocolates. The fine print said that if a Canadian resident won, he/she would have to correctly answer a “time-limited math question” over the phone without help. Wha…?

Then on the bus ride home I noticed one of those religious pamphlets and read one of the section titles which shockingly stated: how to practice our faith more aggressively in 2004. Aggressively. Wha…?!?

PSA: The plural of “virus” is “viruses” not “virii” or “viri.”

some links:
Virus Plural: Viruses
spl’s soapbox — the plural of virus

So there’s a rather nasty email virus running around loose in the net (more info from this CNN article).

Quotes in the article:

WHAT IS A WORM?
A program that makes copies of itself — for example, from one disk drive to another, or by copying itself using e-mail or another transport mechanism.
Source: CNN.com

WARD OFF WORMS
Aside from installing anti-virus software, Symantec suggests these tips to guard against computer worms:

• Don’t open e-mail from an unknown source.
• Only open expected e-mail attachments.
• Don’t automatically open e-mail attachments.
• Don’t download programs from Web sites, unless you know and trust the source.
• Update your anti-virus software at least every two weeks.

Source: Symantec

—C|Net