Hackers suck.  Also anyone who creates viruses, trojans, spyware, and adware.  Somehow I got a nasty trojan and some nasty spyware on my computer yesterday evening, even through my virus protection (granted, it expired two months ago without my knowledge, but it wasn't THAT old) and my tight firewall.  So I've spent the entirety of today updating my protection (and actually upgrading to a more thorough service), waiting four hours for it to download via dial-up, installing it, running a preliminary scan, restarting the computer, deleting temp files and associated program files, and running a thorough scan (still going on).  Because someone out there thinks I have no better use for my time.  I've been unable to check half of the sites I need to (e-mail, Google, Myspace and eBay) because of this crap.  Fortunately, I think I will have it out of the system by tonight. And I've set my firewall to very tight security, and my scans to every day.

Japanese game shows rule.  At least, the one featured on the show "I Survived a Japanese Game Show" does.  It runs 9pm on ABC on Tuesdays and is great, which is saying something because I'm not one for either reality shows or game shows.  You get a little taste of the Tokyo culture too, which is nice.  Check it out sometime; I find it rather funny.