This is a Test Post!

Oh hi!  I didn't see you there.

This is my test blog for new features and themes that may or may not wind up on Dev/Null42, my primary blog.  All the other posts on this page are duplicates of posts from that blog, placed here simply as placeholder content.

In short:  Nothing to see here folks!  ;-)

ConFICK!

The Enemy Within - Magazine - The Atlantic

Utterly fascinating (albeit long...) article on the history of the infamous "Conficker" worm. I had never realized just how sophisticated - and let's be honest, clever - it was/is.

Spoiler:  The worm is still out there, lying dormant in a massive botnet estimated at over 6.5 million computers in size.  And security researchers aren't entirely sure they can ever truly eradicate or contain it...

Portal for Free! (Until May 24)

Steam is now finally available on Mac OS X, and clearly I'll post my impressions on it here in due time.  However, Valve did something else pretty exciting, coinciding with the Mac release...



Portal is an amazing game, and this is the perfect time to check it out if you haven't gotten a chance to yet. This also serves as a great bit of advertising for the upcoming Portal 2, due out late this year.

As a side note - love the trailer too.  Like the earlier teaser for Portal itself, the stylized, graphic animation perfectly captures the game's wicked sense of humor.