The Lady Programmer

One look at Boss Safety and this site reminded me of my past work as a maintenance engineer in a Japanese semiconductor manufacturing company. My main duty was to lead a team of all-male team of technicians in an entire shift. I am also accountable for the regular inventory of tools that are needed by technicians to accomplish their shift duties.

If I had known about Boss Safety before then our company should have ordered a host of quality safety supplies for our group. My boss and I had surfed a dozen sites and decided to take our tools and supplies from several sites. As I was looking over Boss Safety, it looks like this site has more to offer aside from safety supplies and equipment. We should even have ordered pelican cases to protect our heavy duty equipment from getting damaged due to unexpected drops and mishandling.

Memories of my past engineering job have passed on my mind and I wondered what my old office mates are up to right now. I know my former boss is still around tinkering with the equipment and perhaps, still managing the technicians that I left behind. For a fleeting moment, I missed this job that I left almost a year ago.

I got into some news in various technology websites. A virus made it through space. Not the live microorganism that can be cultured in little petri dishes, but a malicious software program that we commonly encounter in our home computers.

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The virus name is Gammima.AG, a worm made to steal login usernames and passwords from popular online games. It was not the first time that NASA carried viruses into orbit, but this news somehow broke from a space news website (SpaceRef) and became such a hit.

I think that virus writer would be quite surprised and proud that his (or her) virus made it through the astronaut’s laptops and made it beyond the earth’s atmosphere. Too bad that writer will not have that opportunity to travel with that virus through space.

Here is the link to one of the articles.

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