January 25th - Today is the 25th day of the year, with only 340 days remaining in 2006.
Slammer
Virus Day
In 2003, a new computer virus first hit computer servers worldwide by
attacking Microsoft Server software. It was given the name of Slammer,
Sapphire, or SQ Hell.
"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred
to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
LAST QUARTER - Jan 22 3:14 p.m.
NEW MOON - Jan 29 2:15 p.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5 6:28 a.m.
FULL MOON - Feb 13 4:44 a.m.
NEW COMPUTER VIRUSES
AIRLINE VIRUS: You're in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.
BORG VIRUS: It quickly assimilates your computer. Resistance is futile.
COUCH POTATO VIRUS: Just sits there eating chips all day.
DISNEY VIRUS: Everything in the computer goes Goofy.
HAPPILY MARRIED VIRUS: Invades only one computer and stays with it for life.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN VIRUS: It will be Bach.
MAFIA VIRUS: You don't want it, but you're afraid to get rid of it.
MOM VIRUS: Places a phone call to your mother every time you click on an
adult website.
RICHARD SIMMONS VIRUS: Deletes FAT table.
SENILITY VIRUS: Causes you to send same e-mail twice.
STAR TREK VIRUS: Invades your system in places where no virus has gone
before.
TEENAGER VIRUS: Your PC stops every few seconds to ask for money.
WATERGATE VIRUS: Erases 18 minutes off your tape backup.
X-FILES VIRUS: All your Icons start shape shifting.
ACTING -
1931 Dean Jones, Decatur AL, actor (That Darn Cat!, Love Bug)
1941 Gregory Sierra, NYC, Latino actor (Det Sgt Chano Amenguale-Barney
Miller)
1945 Leigh Taylor-Young, Washington DC, actress (Peyton Place, Picket Fences)
ARTISTIC -
1759 Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, national poet of Scotland [D:
07/21/1796]
1882 Virginia Woolf, London England, author (Jacob's Room, To the Lighthouse)
1919 Edwin Newman, NY NY, journalist/writer (anchorman-NBC News)
1931 Stan Kegel, International Save the Pun's Punster of the Year for the
year 2000.
HISTORIC -
1860 Charles Curtis, Topeka KS, 31st Vice President of the United States [D:
02/08/1936]
1933 Corazon Aquino, Manila Philippines, President of the Philippines 1986-92
MUSIC -
1980 Alicia Keys, Manhattan NY, R&B/soul singer (9 Grammys/10 Billboard Music
Awards/3 American Music Awards
SCIENCE -
1627 Robert Boyle, Munster Ireland, physicist/chemist/author (regarded as
first modern chemist) [D: 12/30/1692]
1923 Arvid Carlsson, Uppsala Sweden, neurotransmitter dopamine and
Parkinson's disease (Nobel 2000)
SPORTS -
1918 William "Ernie" Harwell, Washington GA, sportscaster (1981 Baseball Hall
of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award)
1941 Wylie "Buddy" Baker Jr, Florence SC, one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers
1942 Carl Eller, Winston-Salem NC, NFL defensive end (Vikings) Super Bowl x4,
Pro Bowl x 6, Hall of Fame 2004
1951 Steve Prefontaine, Coos Bay OR, held the American record in every
running event/Olympics 72 [D: 05/30/75]
1856 Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers and Indians.
1858 The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding
recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen
Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.
1877 Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden.
1890 Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days).
1924 The 1924 Winter Olympics open in Chamonix, France (in the French Alps),
inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1949 At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.
1955 Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to
within one second in 300 years.
1959 First transcontinental commercial jet flight (American) (Los Angeles to
New York for $301).
1961 Walt Disney's "101 Dalmatians" released.
1961 First live, nationally televised Presidential news conference (JFK).
1970 Robert Altman's "M*AS*H" premieres.
1974 South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first human
heart without removal of the old one.
1985 "We are the World" is recorded.
MORE EVENTS
SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Commemoration Birthday of G.F. Croes - Aruba
Foundation Day (Sao Paulo) - Brazil
St. Tatiana Day (beginning of Winter Holiday) - Russia
Burns Night - Scotland
Kirmeline - Lithuania
NEW VIRUS
There is a new virus going around called WORK. If you receive any sort of
WORK, whether via e-mail, Internet, or simply handed to you by a colleague,
do not open it. Those who have opened WORK have found that their social life
is deleted and their brain ceases to function properly.
If you do encounter WORK via e-mail or are faced with any WORK at all, purge
the virus by sending an e-mail to your boss with the words 'This is too much
for me, I'm going out for a soda. This better not be here when I get back.'
Your brain should automatically delete the WORK. If you receive WORK in paper
document form, simply lift the document and drag the WORK to your trash can.
Send this message to all your friends in your address book. If you do not
have anyone in your address book, then the WORK virus has already corrupted
your life!
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one. - Bill Gates
VIRUS: Commonly, the belief of incompetent users that some mysterious
external force is to blame for their mistakes at the keyboard. (Unknown
Internet Source)* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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