Year: 2005

My files are backed up (locally and on my wife’s PC for the time being), and I resolved to build a backup machine that would just sit on the network and store my backups. We have two old PCs sitting in the basement — so I scrounged parts from both, burned a SuSe Linux boot…

I’ll record a podcast detailing the effort to recover my hard drive, but remarkably, all is in tact (even Outlook)! I’m posting this from my ThinkPad, which is back among the living. I’ll warn you ahead of time: the audio will be beyond geeky. I’m currently backing everything up and copying it all to a…

Turns out that a neighbor had an XP disc he could loan me (thanks, Dan!), which let me build the Ultimate Boot Disc for Windows. I was able to boot from the CD, and chkdsk is currently running against my hard drive. That is a good sign — means that it can read the drive,…

Wow. I’d seen that Kevin Kuwik was back in the States on a two week leave from Iraq, and thought how cool it must be for he and his players to see each other on the eve of their MAC tournament. (Kuwik went to college with my brother, and is the assistant basketball coach at…

My ThinkPad got a little flaky last night — the display was very blurred, I couldn’t see the desktop clearly enough to shut down properly. So I did a hard power-down, which appears to have caused problems. Now when I power up, I get a blue screen error: “Unmountable_boot_volume” it says, then reboots and asks…

To Ernie, whose inaugural blog entry was three years ago last week…

Is it just me, or does this article in the most recent Vanity Fair provide the common thread that connects the recent identity theft hacks? (Vanity Fair link via Ernie.) Consider: Hank Asher founded DBT, which was later absorbed by Choicepoint. Hank Asher then founded Seisint, which was later bought by LexisNexis. Odd coincidence, that.…

One year ago today: It’s not the story that matters. It’s what the story says about us — why we tell it, how we tell it — that matters.

Via John Robb, I see Microsoft acquired the remaining piece of Groove Networks (Microsoft was already a large shareholder). A couple years ago (two years ago tomorrow, actually), I wrote about Groove and its growing homeland security business, its relationship with Microsoft and the possible reasons for Groove board member Mitch Kapor leaving the board.…

Claire Chaundy, responding to my post the other day about why people contribute to KM systems: The trend in a move from organizational km to personal km is mirrored in the UK. My view is don’t try to move the elephant, beacuse its big, heavy and has a very long memory for ‘the way we…