Now That's What I Call Epidemic

In the 13 hours between checking my email at home and at work, I had 31 copies of MyDoom. Though as you can tell by my new icon (the dogcow for the unknowing), perhaps I ought to call it YourDoom or MyInconvenience. I got four more in the five minutes it took to go through my inbox. I got 15 in the next five minutes. And I've gotten 4 5 6 7 8 in the last four. It's a good thing I've decided not to archive all the defanged viruses I get like I do with spam.

Incidentally, a lot of the viruses are sent to addresses which have never been used. There is no michael or peter or bill at flwyd.dhs.org. So this is one disadvantage of receiving all email for a domain.

Update: Things have slowed down, but in a 61 minute period I got 56 virus program-related emails. And no legitimate mail. Moof.

Update redux: I suspect that huge flurry was from people spreading the virus as they checked their email in the morning. I only got about 40 MyDoom hits through the rest of the day.

Deadline Performance!

Today was my last day at UNAVCO. I've still got a bit of work to do on the JavaScript for SiteViewer, but it's up and running. I'll comment more about it later.

As usual, my performance picked up this week due in part to a deadline. Since I report to my new job at 8am on Monday, I realized I needed to reform my "get out of bed at 9:30" student ways. On Monday I set my alarm for 8 (1 hour earlier than usual) and got out from the blanket quicker than usual. Due to improperly reading the bus schedule and a two-minute-slow watch I missed the 205 by 30 seconds and so caught one the other direction to buy some snacks at Safeway. I somehow missed the next bus and then ended up on the version which doesn't stop right in front of my work. So I left 1.5 hours earlier, but only arrived 10 minutes earlier than usual (10:30).

On Tuesday I read the bus schedule correctly, set the alarm for 7:30, and got to work at 8:30. Same deal on Wednesday. Thursday I woke up at 7, got to work at 8. Today I woke at 7 but got here at 8:30 (but I'm leaving at 7:30!)

So deadlines helped, but so did being energized from being up earlier. And I think two extra hours of work per day probably helped too. :-)