soapbox

We all know Michael loves this one, and I think it needs updating, given our current worrisome state of affairs, but here it is again on this lovely cold rainy day.

WTF, mate?

If you just bought a new 5.5 gen iPod, and you are using Windows, you’d better be careful…. Is Apple going to play dirty? lol

This certainly isn’t amongst the new features that Apple has touted for their latest rev of iPods. It would seem that a ’small number’ of iPods shipped after Sept. 12, 2006 may be carrying a Windows virus by the name of RavMonE.exe. Apple says that less than 1% of Video iPods are infected, and they have seen less than 25 cases reported. The most interesting sentence of this note is, ‘As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it.’

Google seems to have done something right again with it’s new “solar electricity system.” This thing is said to account for ~30% of their energy use at their one million square foot office complex in Mountain View, California.