My brother Sam is in Baja this week to help Rod Hall International take team Hummer H2 across the Baja 1000 finish line.

Off-Road.com is following the race and has posted a pair of articles (1), (2) on team Hummer H2’s progress on taking a stock H2 and transforming it into a vehicle capable of finishing a grueling race like the Baja 1000. What they don’t tell you is that after the engineers were done with the H2 in Arizona it has been in Sam’s shop (in between races) getting outfitted with what Sam and the Halls (Rod, Chad and Josh) feel is necessary to win races.

Sam was in town showing off the race H2 for the SEMA show a few weeks back, I got to visit and snap a few pics of their race H2.

More pictures of babies! On the left is my uncle Joe holding his grandson Seth, on the right is my sister-in-law Christine holding her daughter Isabel.

I finally got to see my niece Isabel, my sister-in-law came down to visit some friends and I stopped by to say hi and take a few pics.

Me and Isabel and Becca, my sister-in-law’s sister + A proud papa and his daughter + a live and kicking (literally) Isa + the classic pic!

Ran into a few people I know last weekend at the convention November 8th and 9th. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of everyone I wanted to.

Spybot Link.

I run it occasionally to clean stuff out and I would reccomend it to others, especially if you are having random popup ads or your computer is behaving a little more strange lately.

Lots of the free software you download comes with extra programs that help the software author get a little money even though he is giving his software away. These install along with the main program and run in the background, usually collecting statistics on what sites you visit or popping up ads occasionally. These extra programs are labeled spyware because of their stealthy nature (if you are notified at all it is usually at the bottom of the legal agreement you ignored when you installed the software) and their tendancy to send information to companies about your web surfing habits.

Spybot will remove these, along with common advertising cookies and maybe a few other things. Some of this spyware tightly integrates with Windows networking components and removing it can cause problems, while I’ve never encountered a problem running Spybot or the like I know some have.

A related program is Ad Aware. While these products mostly overlap in their capabilities, it is best to run both to be complete.

Both Spybot and AdAware are updated regularaly, like your antivirus program. You’d do well to keep up to date with these as well.