Well, despite the much-publicized closing down of Britain due to snow, I've made it into the office today, only to find that the heating has broken down! The coldest day in three years or something (or so I heard, dunno about the veracity of that claim), and that's the day it goes for a burton. Seriously considering going home if it's not fixed before long.

Had a brilliant night last night, did horrifically badly in the quiz, drank some very nice wine and had a good meal (salmon in peppercorn sauce) and had a seriously good chat. Amanda phoned while we were in the pub, and we saw Alex & Bev, had a really good time. I'd also had flowers delivered to Amanda's hotel room for when she arrived, so that made it slightly better her being so far away, as did the phone call. Got to bed at about 2.30am in the end, and up again at 6.30, so I'm a bit tired.

Still no hard drive, still no packages.

Gah, the heating just came back on, but apparently blizzard-type snow is heading south fast, it's hit Leicester already...

I'm the guy who posted the anonymous comment on Slashdot that is rapidly becoming famous, in response to the news that MyDoom will attack SCO's website, I commented "Quick, disable your AV software, and get some Windows boxes on the internet!" The message quickly got modded up to +5 (Funny) and then back down to zero through a combination of Troll and Flamebait mods.

This comment has subsequently been quoted in a story on eWeek, where it has been utterly taken out of context, as apparently honestly cheering on the writers of the MyDoom worm, and seriously suggesting that people that the action I mention. So, I'm forced to say this:

IT WAS A JOKE!

Now, I'm sorry if some people have had sense-of-humour bypasses, but it was not, ever meant to be taken seriously. I'm a responsible mail admin myself, we've been blocking tons of MyDoom, and I wouldn't for a moment consider disabling our virus scanning on mails, or of letting MyDoom through, and neither should you. This worm has the potential to do more serious damage to the reputation of the Free Software community than it does to SCO's website if ill-informed tech writers continue to try to draw connections between it and the community.