O Mundo de Claudia

Pangloss

My intrusion detection system BlackICE reported this intruder who was probing my TCP port:

And I thought that this is really clever.....the Pangloss node is in the Utopia group :-)

Pangloss is a character on the satiric novel "Candide" by Voltaire and he is a very annoying eternal optimist; on one of the chapters Candide and Pangloss arrive in Lisbon on the precise day the big earthquake happens. After helping the wounded and walking around the ruins of the town:

"For," said Pangloss, "all this is for the very best end, for if there is a volcano at Lisbon it could be in no other spot; and it is impossible but things should be as they are, for everything is for the best."
By the side of the preceptor sat a little man dressed in black, who was one of the familiars of the Inquisition. This person, taking him up with great complaisance, said, "Possibly, my good sir, you do not believe in original sin; for, if everything is best, there could have been no such thing as the fall or punishment of man."
Your Excellency will pardon me," answered Pangloss, still more politely; "for the fall of man and the curse consequent thereupon necessarily entered into the system of the best of worlds."