Author: Rick Klau

Confirming what all of you already know, the fact that this made me laugh out loud confirms that yes, I am a geek.

I’ve written about Kevin Kuwik a number of times (here, here, here, and here) since learning of his return to active duty. (If you don’t recall the whole back story, read the article from ESPN.com that covers it.) Well, after Ohio’s incredible run through the MAC tournament (capped off by a come-back from 19 down…

Just recorded a podcast about my laptop woes over the weekend, what happened, and how I recovered from it. Some links mentioned or referred to in the discussion: Blue Screen of Death Unmountable boot volume Access IBM Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows Slipstreaming XP and SP2 Bart’s PE Chkdsk   March 14, 2005: My laptop…

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.…