Saw Red

I'll post the cherry blossom in February stuff later. Snapped the pic last Saturday. Still don't feel in a cherry blossom posting mood. Not into pink, not this moment.

There was all this red, see.


Funny, isn't it?
Suppose the folks at Google, just the same as so many other IT folks, must simply expect every pc is always online: therefore, always available for updating whatever bits of software they simply must update. Every hour. More often, if the user dares disable the service on his own machine.

Unlike Google Updater Service...or Gusvc...or Gupdate...I have an off-switch. Also happen to be on dial-up. Yesss, snickering IT guys, dial-up is it in some older parts of this...town.

So. Uninstalled Google ToolBar earlier today. The culprit. Some update, I imagine. Same thing happened to the machine at work, at the same time, two weeks ago. Am currently monitoring for unwanted system behaviour. Will be writing and playing Xbox later. Not sure in which order, that.