Parite

Arrrgh. I let my guard down and got infected by Win32.Parite.B today. By an outdated malware that requires you to execute it!!!! I am ashamed. Luckily it does nothing other than attaching a copy of itself to every .exe file on all my harddrive and taking up a lot of HD space. And there’s a specialized remover tool for it.

A lot of time wasted with no real harm done.

Kinokuniya Singapore is having 20% off storewide from May 20th to 22nd (or 31st for members) at all three stores. Hopefully my orders arrive this week…

EDIT: Buy a Gundam (official site):

Nagumo, 32, developed the product over two years almost all by himself as he wanted to develop a robot that could be driven and operated to move like Gundam.

He said he thought such state-of-the-art robots as Honda Motor Co.’s ASIMO to be “excellent in technology but they are like Atom (Astro Boy),” referring to the cartoon robot by the late Osamu Tezuka. “I wanted to see a robot on which people ride and operate, like Gundam.”

The Land Walker, which is made to order, costs 36 million yen. The price will be lowered if enough people place orders, he said.

Nice. But it looks ugly. Also it doesn’t seem to really walk… From the videos on the website, it looks like it’s moving by alternating between the wheels underneath the feet.