It's been an odd week on the tech front.

First, on Tuesday, Eudora started acting a little bit strange. Portions of windows would appear over my Firefox browser window. Other windows would not open and close correctly. I closed down Eudora and, when I visited the Eudora Web site, saw that a new version was available. I trashed my older version, rebooted, and downloaded and installed the new version and everything seems fine.

Then on Thursday, when I was in Yahoo! Mail using Firefox, another strange thing happened. Every time I typed an apostrophe, it was interpreted as command-F and whatever I continued typing would appear in a find search box. I finished my email message, writing around the need for any apostrophes, closed down Firefox and started it up again, and everything was fine.

Viruses are a minimal threat to Macs, but just to be safe, I did a virus check yesterday. I saw that the scan basically stalled at a compressed version of a mail file that somehow wound up in my Library directory. So this is why my automatic monthly virus scans were taking forever as my hard drive grinded away, slowing down everything else I had to do. I stopped the scan, threw out the compressed file, restarted the scan, and everything was fine.

Mac OS X automatically checks for other disk problems at startup, but just to be sure, I'll run Disk Utility sometime over the weekend when I am out for a few hours.