I ate a Schlotsky's deli sandwich at work yesterday - weird. This is the third time I've tried Schlotsky's, and each time has been weird. Three strikes and you're out.

MS Exchange 2000 - MS doesn't know how to accurately name things - "critical queue growth" really isn't 'growth' (where the number of messages would actually be increasing in the queue), but merely the queue is getting older (i.e., there's one stupid message, like an undeliverable receipt, that's been sitting in the queue for awhile). It should more aptly be named "critical queue age", not 'growth'.

It's been fun to sit back and watch the "W32.Mimail.A@mm" virus at play - we have been completely unscathed at home and at work, although we got lots of messages from local folks that obviously were infected. Luckily we had decided to manually update definitions (rather than rely on LiveUpdate) both on Friday afternoon (Symantec client) and Monday morning (Symantec for Exchange), just about an hour before we started getting slammed by infected messages.   =)

I finally read up on S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology system) hard drive monitoring. It had been a rainy day project that I kept forgetting about. Pretty cool stuff. I have always enabled it in the BIOS on any computer I work on with a newer hard drive. It always "felt" like a good idea, but now I have documented backup that it's a great idea.

As many of you know, we've been trying to either buy a house or get into a new (non-smoky) apartment for several months now, but have thus far been unsuccessful. I believe we have now found a new place for ourselves, a condo that we're going to rent, that is happily devoid of all traces of smoke, fish, overused cooking oil, dog urine, and all the other smells with which we've been bombarded since living in our current apartment. (Our neighbors are fairly stinky folk.)