Forward Progress

Progress is being made despite the lack of updates on this blog. 
Creative: I've got my creaive juices flowing again and have come up with several creative projects ranging from stand alone, one-off character/creatures I'm currently in the middle of creating, to short stories, to game design concepts

Indie: The Indie group I'm working with is chugging along at a nice clip.  3D assets, concept art, code, animation; it's all moving along rather smoothly

Business: I have successfully finalized the interface/experience flow and hardware strategy plan regarding the render farm.  I've decided that I will stick to a purely CPU based farm until I can figure out a charge scheme on the GPU processing the GPU cards would give me.

From Bad to worse...

The trojan/virus/bot/whatever seems to have been taken care of.  However, I may now be dealing with what it did to my computer. 

Any time I now launch a memory or graphics intensive applications, I get a blue screen of death.  I'll try reseating my hardware components tonight in hopes that it was simply knocked loose when my cat knocked my entire tower off the side of my desk (it is now residing safely on the ground).

Disaster Strikes..

I came home to lunch today only to find my computer with a Trend Micro window sitting in the bottom right corner of my right-most monitor.  Since I had turned the machine on that morning, there had been 1400+ blocked URL attempts and 84 blocked security alerts.  This is what I get for leaving my machine on with Remote Access enabled. 

Bad Doug!