Here is the link to a wonderful video from the 60s, advertising THE moped of the hour, called the Lambretta.
Yearly Archives: 2006
Local coupons at Zixxo
A website called Zixxo has launched to allow coupon creation and distribution via RSS feeds. Businesses can log on and create coupons, specify local or national distribution, and consumers can access and use them. Nice! See link for details.
Catch that hard drive before it croaks
Tom Krazit, writing for CNETNews.com, describes a piece of software called HDDLife Utility, that monitors the health of hard drives and lets you know how much longer they’ll last. This lets you plan data backups, so you’re prepared and most importantly, you don’t lose it! See link for details.
Service remotely encrypts or deletes data
A new service called Everdream allows you to encrypt or delete computer data if it’s stolen. The computer will contact the Everdream site the first chance it gets, and it will get its directives from there. It’ll also store the internet connection information for law enforcement purposes. Cool! Unfortunately, if the hard drive is reformatted before it’s connected to the Internet, Everdream is useless. See, this is why flash memory storage should be standard on motherboards, in addition to the hard drive. The OS should be loaded onto the flash memory, and data stored on the drive. There should be permanent storage sections on the flash memory where programs like Everdream could be installed, for just such occasions. Here is the link.
On learning from one's parents
Had a small flood in my kitchen today… well, I guess it’s smallish if an industrial-size wetvac only needs to be emptied twice to clear up the water… My wife and I were both away, and I got a call on my cellphone from the building manager, informing us of the flood, and that employees were already cleaning up the spill. That’s an interesting call to get when you don’t expect it!
Still have no idea how it happened. We live in a condominium, and I guess one of us must have left the faucet on. The water was turned off this morning, for repairs elsewhere. Then, when it got turned back on, the sink didn’t drain properly, and overflowed.
Now our counter and cabinets (wood) are swollen with water, and part of our living room floor is also swollen (parquet). We’re just happy because our neighbors haven’t complained. We’d have felt like complete dunces if the water would have seeped into their place.
Now I understand why my father always checks the faucets and stove before my parents leave the house. He’s been burned (figuratively speaking). I used to smile as he’d check them every time. Now he’ll be the one smiling when he finds out I’ve learned my lesson the hard way… It’s a funny thing with parents — as we grow up, we think they’re clueless, but as we grow older, we find out they’re pretty darn smart.
Raoul Pop 