Posts Tagged ‘virus’

The ongoing virus-hunt continues – the guy beside me found something on his computer first thing this morning – we spent some time looking it up to see what it does and what to do about it – then he had to use my work computer to do some stuff and I was relegated to just working on my laptop. I was glad to do it, it gave me a chance to follow along on one of the tutorials and I think I am really getting a handle on this stuff now – a small handle, but a handle nonetheless.

Then later in the day I spent a fair bit of time finishing up some odds and ends on various projects – organizing files and folders, stuff like that. As messy as I admit I am in my house, that’s how compulsively organized I am on the computer. (It thrills me to be able to find whatever file  I’m looking for whenever I need it – unlike my house where I’m lucky if I can find my family most of the time!)

I still have some catch-up work to do for the CGI part of  the program at school, but given the hours I am working it begins to look as if I may not get it done in time – I find I am less upset at the thought than I expected to be – but it does seem too bad to have put in all this time and effort and not even have a certificate to show for it… I just don’t know where I’ll find the time to get it done. I do actually know how to do all the stuff we’re required to do for the assignments – especially now that I’ve been working “in the field”, as it were – I just don’t have the time to write all the pages I’d need to do. I’ll have to see what I can get done this weekend.

I was happier to be back at work today  than I thought I would be – part of that due no doubt to the fact that my husband makes a very impatient patient! I left him to rest and take it easy at home for the day, but he’ll have to make his own snacks!

I was glad to have gotten as many pages done at home yesterday as I did. There are over 240 of them to do, and I am averaging about 25-35 a day, depending on how much formatting and spelling correction is required. I have gone from going slowly to make sure I haven’t made any mistakes, to “wow, look how fast I am getting!”, to “When will it be over, already!”

By now I have it down to a routine – edit and format the actual content of the page, save it with a very long and descriptive SEO-friendly filename, then add it to the PHP file that will call it to the location it needs to be in on the main page, save that file, add it to the menu file and save that file, test it in Firefox and IE, then on to the next…

When I got back from lunch I found everyone in a fluster – we have a virus on the loose. So the whole remainder of the day was spent trying to get rid of this virus that appeared out of nowhere. We can’t figure out how it got in, whose machine started it, etc, etc, and I really can’t see that it matters all that much – what we need to concentrate on is GETTING RID OF IT!!!