Cleaning up after the W32.Myzor.FK virus

One of my colleagues was unfortunate enough to attract the W32.Myzor.FK virus over the weekend and I've been trying to squash it today.

We've installed SpyBot, Ad-Aware and ran Microsoft's scanner from safety.live.com, but no luck. I came across a tool on Technibble, and that did the trick :)

Wee to the Wii

Julie (the better part of this relationship) came home with a surprise the other day! Guess what!?

That's right, a Nintendo Wii. Cool!

We've been playing it for a few evenings now, and its quite a laugh. The hand held gyro-based shake-twist-point-click-twirl-control system is just amazing. Really gets you sweating.

The game Rayman Raving Rabbids, which is the other game besides the obligatory Wii Sports, is a nonsense-game where you hurl cows, shoot toilet plungers at rabbits, ride in warthog races or even pull out worms from teeth. The objective is usually to do as much damage to the stark raving mad rabbits as possible.

Don't make me think

I'm just about finishing up my copy of "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug. He does an excellent job of making usability a fun topic. The book is a very light read. Not only because of Krugs amusing style of writing, but also the actual layout of the book. Its short with lot's of example illustrations. I read through the whole thing in less than 10 hours.

Krug focuses on webdesign, but I believe anyone who works with computer programming, be it web or applications, will benefit from reading this book. I wish some of the programmers from certain applications I'm using had taken the time to read it.

I can highly recommend this book to anyone who is designing ANYTHING who is going to be used by mere mortals.