Virus hoaxes

This won't be a rant. This will be a call to all to just look a little deeper before you willy-nilly forward that scary email warning of terrifying, computer-crushing viruses.

If you get one of those "Please forward this to everyone you've ever met" emails that warn you about viruses coming to kill your computer hidden in photos of Osama being hanged or something like that, how about going to www.symantec.com and searching this mythical virus beforehand.

They have a HUGE store of detail on actual viruses and those stupid fear-inspiring email hoaxes people like to send. These hoax emails are as good as spam and they use your own fear to drown the internet in them.

So just check up on them before you press the "forward to all" button and eat up a chunk of your bandwidth sending out an email for something that doesn't exist.

Hell, if you don't know about Symantec, just Google it and I'm sure you'll find the info that way too.

If we all do this, those hoaxers are stopped in their tracks and they don't win.

Let's not perpetuate the cycle of fear. Let's get smart. Let's Google!

I blame National Geographic!

So the Kardasian sisters were in Johannesburg for a spell. And the first words out of their mouths? Where are the animals!

I blame National Geographic for this gross misconception about South Africa. Every single time they show Africa, it's all veld and naked painted women in the bush! Oh, and lions of course. "Look at the gazelle grazing. Here comes the lion in for the kill"

You know, we do have some very big cities! We have asphalt streets and running water and actual houses made out of actual bricks, people!!!!!

How about you Google Cape Town or Johannesburg just once and see the glory that is South Africa! If nothing else, at least District 9 should show that South Africa has got more than just lions running around eating naked black people. And gazelles. Can't forget about those stupid gazelles.

Bah!

Early early

I'm not a morning person. Never was. Never will be. But it's cool. I have my coffee and that makes it all good.

Now on to what's on my mind, and this morning it's the IAAF insisting on Caster Semenya taking a gender test. You know, that just grates my cheese! Yeah, she's probably the most muscular woman I've seen in a LONG time (Williams sisters included) and she can probably leave some male athletes in the dust. But apparently that MUST mean that she's not a woman???!!!!!! The nerve!

I am a feminist. I believe in woman's rights. I unfortunately also believe that even though we've fought so long and so hard to be able to vote (in most countries at least) and to go to war as something other than a nurse and to even run for President (believe it or not, but one of the African countries even has a woman president!), we as women are still seen as the weaker (and therefore less important) sex.

And when there's a woman that comes along that is strong and fast and impressive, immediately she has to be put down.

So what if she doesn't look like a freaking supermodel? Hell, a supermodel wouldn't be able to do what she did!

It sickens me that people still hold on to this thing that a woman is supposed to look a certain way to be seen as a woman. It's total BS and I am so proud of Caster and I hope she wins all the battles before her.

Maybe we should just go back to the way the Greeks did it in the days of old. Just compete naked. Then nobody can argue about who's who and what's what.

I'm obsessed and I admit it

Ok, so I'm sitting in my living room, bored as all hell. The Bachelorette is running on TV, but I already know who she's going to pick, because Ellen spoiled me a few month ago already. Bah!

So here I sit with my laptop on my lap and I'm searching my favourite online shopping site. That's always a dangerous thing, but luckily I have the presence of mind to just click the "Add to Wishlist", instead of the "Buy Now" button.

I'm searching the shopping site first for the infamous and hard-to-find 3-disc special edition Twilight DVD and then I think... hmmm... what other stuff do they have. About an hour later and I've searched and added 2 gorgeous Edward puzzles, the Twilight boardgame, the New Moon boardgame, the Special Edition Twilight Scene It game and Edward knows what else!

I see it and I just want it! It's like herion. Hmmm... My own personal brand of herion. Hahaha! Yeah, Edward has Bella and I have them all.

And you know the sad thing? If I actually end up buying all that stuff (my poor poor credit card is groaning even as I am contemplating this) and people find out about the stuff I bought, I can already see the looks I'll get from them. The "is she nuts" look. The "how old is she" look. And they'll all be like "oh that's nice" in that horrid patronising voice and I just hate it!

I know there are others like me out there. Hell, there are others out there even more obsessive than me. I just wish sometimes that I knew them and could talk to them and be able to express my feelings in a community that understands and feels the same. Man, I wish I could also go to the Twi-conventions and meet these people. Unfortunately for me I'm on the wrong continent. Oh well....

Ok, I'm done for now. Time for me to turn off the computer and go watch some Xena-Warrior Princess. Hahahah! Yeah, you heard me. Xena rocks!!!!!