{"id":368,"date":"2003-10-28T20:05:30","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=368"},"modified":"2003-10-28T20:05:30","modified_gmt":"2003-10-28T23:05:30","slug":"im-not-a-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"I’m not a virus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/span>verytime a Windows ‘virus’ breaks out I have to laugh. And guess what: the latest variant of Melissa urges you to open that attachment once again but this time with more funny subject lines like ‘I am not a virus!<\/a>‘.\n<\/p>\n

‘Virus’ writers should start contests in writing the best ‘subject line to urge users to click that attachment’. Imagine a ‘virus’ writer with a ‘writer’s block’. Luckily there are plenty of resources to deal with a writer’s block<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

   “Cluster – Choose key words and ideas; then write associated ideas and words in clusters around them. This process often forms new ideas.”\n<\/p>\n

Or in case of our beloved ‘virus’ writers: go get a life and try do something more original. If you want to be a real<\/em> programmer, you should join an Open Source project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everytime a Windows ‘virus’ breaks out I have to laugh. And guess what: the latest variant of Melissa urges you to open that attachment once again but this time with more funny subject lines like ‘I am not a virus!‘. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}