Saturday, June 19, 2004

My spyware problems were mitigated by the free Ad-aware and Spybot programs, but only in the same way that those herpes remedies advertised on TV claim to work -- the bug is still there, and it can flare up at very inconvenient times. Not that I know about the herpes first hand. Spyware is bad enough. Anyway, I did something bold for a non-geek like me (I'm a nerd, maybe, but not a geek, in that I don't know much about what goes on under the hood of a computer) -- I went into DOS and cleaned the crap out by hand. Seems to be working. 4:39:13 PM    comment []

Following my moral inconsistency on pacifism (below), I will say that despite my opposition to the death penalty, I would be just fine with beheading the al Qaeda people who beheaded Berg and Johnson. And I would have been OK with the death penalty for the adult DC sniper, too. 3:41:15 PM    comment []

We watched Big Fish. It fell into that curiously narrow gulf between a really good movie and a really bad one. Billy Crudup as the world's best-looking journalist was just not quite up to staying in the frame with Albert Finney, and the southern accents were acting-class caliber. But Tim Burton conjures up some magic, in his images and the father-son story. Sydney thought it was sad. We all liked the giant. 3:38:19 PM    comment []