I hope everyone has a safe and joyous New Year tonight. I’m relishing the few days I’ll get to relax and try and recover from the hustle and bustle that each December brings. Perhaps I’ll even ponder a resolution or two…

This past weekend many folks in the Northeast experienced a serious ice storm (AP link, Yahoo link). Over 200,000 homes and businesses in the Albany, NY area lost power on Thursday night… including us. Driving to work Friday morning was more like a video game — pitch black conditions in unlit neighborhoods, roads blocked by [...]
So I just nearly wiped my entire hard drive using a DoD-certified data deletion algorithm. I know, I know… I just got done with computer troubles. I was trying to clean an external drive for possible giveaway, and needed to ensure no info could be resurrected off said device. Unfortunately, when I began this process [...]