Month October 2008

SpinRite saves the day (again)

SpinRite is a $89 utility that brings hard disks back from the dead when no other program can. It is file system independent and works on PCs, Macs and Linux. An example. My aging P4 went south a few days…

Paris for President

Ms. Hilton proposes a number of quite liberal ideas should she become president. Stop global warming. Drive hybrids. Get rid of the old gray-haired guys. My favorite. Paint the White House pink and move it Maui.

Twitter Vote Report

Twitter Vote Report will provide real time reporting from polling stations across the country. By using identifiers on the messages (called hashtags), tweets (Twitter messages) can be easily filtered and tracked by anyone. For example a tweet of “#94080 #machine”…