Very exciting things, and not just the Superbowl ads! Yesterday night, I had a section conference meeting at CMU (which is going very well), and afterwards I walked down Forbes to Pitt’s campus to hear Frank Warren speak. Warren is the creator of PostSecret, and the talk was really, really good. He talked about his view of secrets, how they harm us and how they can help us, how he started the project, how he goes about selecting secrets for the website each week and other various details and fun facts of the project and process.
One of the more interesting things I found was that Warren’s secret is actually in the first book. I’m not going to tell you which one is his (since the secrets remain anonymous), but if you want to borrow the book, just ask. The facility was nice, although the lady from Pitt who introduced Warren was a horrible public speaker. The walk was very cold, and I almost lost a glove when I got to the William Pitt Union (they originally wouldn’t let the general public in until right before Warren began, but they let me in early, but when I went in, I left a glove at the bench I was sitting on. When I got inside, I noticed that I had lost my glove, and went out to retrieve it.).
Ok, Superbowl ads, some comments: Loved the "Rock, paper, scissors" Budweiser ad, and a few of their others, but that was my favorite. I really liked all of the careerbuilder.com commercials (work/jungle), and probably the biggest surprise was the lack of Pepsi ads (besides naming rights for the half-time show). It is common for one product in a sector to pay for exclusive advertising rights, I just didn’t expect it to be Coke (over Pepsi). And speaking of the half-time show, I really did enjoy ‘His Purple Majesty’s’ show, although I was hoping for ‘Little Red Corvette.’
Questions for everyone: I’m trying new anti-virus programs and firewalls, and I was wondering if anyone had opinions (I’ve talked to a few of you, but chime in anyway!). In terms of anti-virus software, I’m trying both Avast and AVG. Avast found a virus that AVG didn’t, so I guess that’s good. I’ve looked all over the web, and can’t really find a conclusive answer as to if one protects better than the other. I still have Norton, but only because it has other tools, like Ghost and Rollback, but the updates ran out (hence my need for the new, free anti-virus programs).
In terms of Firewalls, I’m currently using Zone Alarm, and am really happy with it. I wanted something better than the Windows Firewall, so I started with R-Firewall, which was a disaster. I then moved to Comodo, another disaster, although a smaller disaster (although, I do think it was responsible for constantly kicking our entire network off the internet). Again, just wondering if people had thoughts, programs to try?
