Friday the 13th

Today is Friday the 13th. I still remember long time ago there was a computer virus with this name that would do a lot of damage to the infected computers on this day. The virus was noticed worldwide in almost an instant and antidote was developed by anti-virus softwares to stop its further damage. That was long time ago and viruses nowaday are being considered far less scary than their modern soblings, spywares. Well, so much about the old days when The Return of Jedi is still the main topic in the town. I come across the original Japanese"Ring" novels (3 volumes, not LOTR though) in Chinese translation some time ago and, still, I am impressed by the author's imagination and the ability to transform a story from a horror one (Ring, the scary movie that was modified from the Japanese version) to a semi philosophical sci-fi storyline (the second Ring, although it is called something else in Japanese), then finally to a thoroughly Sci-fi novel about Artificial Intelligent and networked emulation of the real world...