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I can’t believe it. It’s a year since Spring died. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I took her for a walk in the morning, and we played with her, throwing sticks for her to fetch, or running after her out on the green until shortly before the vet called to the house.
2003 – bye bye, not a good year.

As I mentioned previously, Zac went missing on Saturday. Mel sent me a text last night with 3 words I was hoping to hear, “Zac is back.”
Zac was sleeping on a neighbour’s window sill for the 2 nights he was missing and the owners saw the notice in the local shop and got in touch! Yay! 🙂

A few days ago I reported on 2 car accidents in which 5 people lost their lives. Justin provided a comparision between Ireland and the USA WRT car accidents. Here in Ireland, it makes the news when someone dies on the roads, and that makes people more aware of the dangers of road travel. There are the same number of deaths in the US but apparently they’re not as widely reported. Why is that? Justin says it better so have a look at his blog!
The last week has been a bad time in Ireland because of some exceptionally heinous crimes. I was going to provide some commentry around these links but I find myself unable to do so. [1] [2 ] [3] [4]

The latest updated local-rules.procmail from John Hardin has a rule to catch the new NovArg worm. The worm is caught by his security script anyway, but this Procmail recipe identifies the worm.
Update! It seems that the worm uses files with the .zip extension to transmit itself. These aren’t mangled by default so it’s probably worth adding “.zip” to your mangle list for the next week or so. John has more to say..

While in Chicago I continued my favourite past time of browsing in book shops. I don’t remember the shop itself but it was on the corner of State and Randolph I think where I purchased a DAW Books 30th Anniversary Science Fiction Collection. I’m half way through it now and it’s a great read, Tad Williams’ short story is crazy, following the take over of the Earth by an AI, Terminator or Lawnmower man style, but through IRC! heh. Another story uses IRC too as a means of communication between ships in space, and a whole story unwinds from the script of the chat-session. Great stuff.

Mel posted before I did. His cat Zac is missing since last Saturday. They’re all worried about him, and as Mel said, Zac’s sister Zara is out of sorts because he’s missing. Cat’s are survivors though, so I think he’ll turn up!

Guide the laser and light up the bulbs! This is a clone of an ancient c64 game I loved. As pron puts it, “like the c64 the playing was important, not the graphics.”
In other news, Ireland’s tech industry goes down the tubes with the proliferation of online Flash games. heh.

As seen on Today FM this afternoon, it seems I was born in the year of the rabbit,

There were 2 terrible road accidents this morning. One of them was just outside Cahir, in Co. Tipperary. I drove past there dozens of times in the past and I was shocked to hear the news.