A news item that caught my attention this morning was one on Slashdot (the news blog for geeks, nerds and anyone else who likes to be diverted by bits and pieces of techie news).  Apparently an update of the popular AVG anti-virus software identifies a key Windows file as a virus.  See “AVG Virus Scanner Removes Critical Windows File“.

I don’t myself use VG, but thought it might be helpful to include a mention of it.  What also caught my attention, though, was the rather pedantic debate that followed in the blog comments about what should be the plural form of ‘virus’ -  virii?  viri?  viruses?  I think probably the last of these – in spite of my having learned Latin at school and having a tendency toward ‘i’ endings.  Have I nothing better to spend my time on?  Let’s get back to the serious stuff.

Anyone like firesales?  I’m not sure where the fire was, but there’s an interesting collection of good things at Firesale Inferno.  Now I’ll be honest; I have not bought into it myself.  I already have too large an accumulation of things waiting to be read and used, and just have to draw a halt somewhere. However, I did read through a lot of the site and was impressed.

I recommend you take look.  There may be something there – either the full collection at an extremely attractive price, or some individual part of it – that just hits on what you need (“scratches your itch” so to speak).

Have good day.