Today I got a cryptic message from my ISP.

“It has been brought to our attention that a PC in your home may be compromised with a computer virus. Please ensure that you have virus software that is updated on your computer and run a virus scan as soon as possible.

In an effort to maintain the integrity of our network, your outgoing e-mail capabilities have been temporarily blocked.

Once you have identified and resolved the virus issue, please contact our Customer Care Center at the number below to have your access restored.”

Talk about a passive way to stop spam. I’m on an all-Mac network, BTW.

Right now I’m in the process of my 4th complete rewrite of my college essay. Why? Because I can’t come up with an aswer to the damn questions. Stuff like “Who is your most inspirational adult and why?”

Who’s inspirational to me? Richard Nixon for having the balls to do a criminal coverup while he’s the damn President.

Who else? There’s Michael Moore for having the balls to come out with an anti-Bush documentary so close to the election.

Who else? Darth Vader, for being such a badass that he could kill someone by squeezing his fist…when the person is light years away.

People who knew how to manipulate the system and become stronger because of it. Can I put that on a college essay? HELL NO. Why? “It’s not what the administration officer wants to hear.” I’m expected to say “The most inspirational person to me is Mother Teresa because she wanted the money she won for the Nobel Peace Prize to the poor people of Calcutta.” Or something.

Kerry took round 3 of the presidential debates easily tonight. Bush was once again stumbling over his words, not answering questions, and lying about most of the stuff he presented. Kerry was strong, resolute, and definitive, and had all of his facts and figures in order.

I’ve got MovableType 3.1 installed on here, which should help me out with some of the glitchies out of the system I’ve been having on my end.

If there are bugs in the system, that’s why. Kthx.

Already popping up on blogs everywhere (for instance, Erik Barzeski brought it up, as did Brian from Unsanity), the debate has been over for about 45 minutes.

Kerry won. Totally.

Kerry came across as cool, calm, collected, and organized. Bush came across as shuffling, inconsistent, and just generally unprepared. He said “it’s hard work” 11 times. He started off somewhat strong, but became hokey and dissheveled. He came at Kerry with the same response like 3 or 4 times, to different questions. Something to the effect of “You can’t say to our troops ‘wrong place, wrong time, wrong war’. Our troops can’t rely on a commander in chief who doesn’t know where he stands.” Kerry would then come back with a swift response and leave the president speechless.

Owned.

I know it’s been 8 months since we all got to see far more of Janet Jackson’s right tit than we wanted to, but the money is going to start flowing. The FCC has fined Viacom $550,000 for losing control of her nipple during the Super Bowl.

Now, I understand how anal soccer moms can be about having their precious 7 yaer old hear someone say “shit” on TV. I don’t agree with it, but I do understand that the yuppies in our country who seem to know what’s better for me than I do have to impose their will on me by ensuring that TV that I watch is degraded so that children don’t grow up with potty mouths.

But this is stupid.

$550,000 for a nipple that was on screen for about a half second? COME ON. It was unintentional. It wasn’t ”explicit”. It was a goddamned boob.

We need to grow up in this country. Very few countries of the world are forced to censor entertainment they pay for, and we happen to be one of them.

I wrote a neat little app that lets you eject iPods from the menu bar. It’s called menuPod. I’m unsure whether I’m going to release it under Wonder Warp or not. That’s the icon.

Work has continued on my other major OS X app. It’s shaping together quite nicely.

In my second Electoral College-related post today/of all time, I look at how much of the popular vote a candidate needs to become president. This is based off of statistical data from the 2000 US Census and simple data derived from Microsoft Excel, using simple mathematics.

While the preciseness of the percentage I will give is questionable, it is no doubt a very ineresting insight into just how inaccurate the Electoral College may be. And the result will shock you.