I may be a bachelor, but necessity has taught me a few things about doing laundry. Never mix whites with other colors, or your whites will come out in other colors. I of course won't divulge how I happened on this bit of wisdom. So imagine my puzzlement when I did a load of wash that went in all white and came out a very bright shade of yellow. Nothing in there had any hue going in but 0xffffff (that's geek for white). It's them damn terrorists I tell you... secretly throwing dye into the laundry detergent bottles at the supermarket. They know the long-term psychological damage that can be caused by being seen in public in yellow underwear. Now they went and got me pissed. Nuke the bastards...

Great, now we've got second cousin of Code Red to contend with. This one is worse than the last two because it sits there and probes your site for a dozen files (instead of just one) which makes it a bit more of a pain in the rear-end than its predecessors. To add insult to injury, even though it doesn't find any of those files on my site it comes back and tries again a little while later; over and over and over again. I'm probably going to have to take evasive action against this one - as soon as the first request comes in, put the network address in a blocking table and cut it off at the transport level. What's really insane is that a certain operating system is apparently configured by default to give full access to the command processor (i.e. the DOS prompt) from an anonymous network connection. I'm speechless. I know some of these programmers and they're generally bright people. What could they have been thinking? If you've got NT or 2000, turn off IIS. Do it now. Get a real web server if you need one. Any time you're connected to the internet anybody in the world can wipe your hard drive. Now that I've snooped the packets I could do it in about 30 seconds. Most any script kiddie could do it in 5. Reason enough?

Check out "Beneath The Veil" on CNN tomorrow (Sunday, 9/23) at 4PM PST. Tape it. It was like watching Matrix. You've got a choice between the red pill and the blue pill. If you take the blue one, you'll wake up and everything will be normal. You take the red one and nothing will ever be normal again - but the funny thing is it never was. Only watch this if you're ready for the red pill.