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April Fool’s Day prank ideas

daveorsborn — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:12:16 +0000

Scott Adams (Dilbert) has several April Fool’s Day prank suggestions. Be sure to read the comments for a slew of additional ideas.

IT nightmare

daveorsborn — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:13:57 +0000

GULP!

From USA Today:

Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroy hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disc drive containing an account worth $38 billion.

That may be how a computer technician at the Alaska Department of Revenue feels after deleting applicant information for an oil-funded sales account — one of state residents’ biggest perks.

While reformatting the disk drive during a routine maintenance check, the technician mistakenly reformatted the back up drive as well and, suddenly, all the data disappeared.

But the dread didn’t really set in until the department turned to its third line of defense, back up tapes that are updated nightly, only to find those tapes were unreadable.

You gotta feel bad for this guy.

Starbucks Launches Record Label

daveorsborn — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:40:26 +0000

Starbucks Gossip has the news that Starbucks is launching the Hear Music record label. Paul McCartney is rumored to be the first artist to sign with the new label.

Here is the official press release regarding Hear Music.

Save the Streams!

daveorsborn — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:26:53 +0000

Internet radio (at least as we have come to love it) faces extinction.

Get the whole story on savethestreams.org and take the time to sign the petition.

(Thanks to Bijanblog for the tip)

Are the Buckeyes peaking at the right time?

daveorsborn — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:25:00 +0000

The brackets are set and the Buckeyes look like they are peaking at about the right time.

The Buckeyes have won 17 straight and showed up to play at the Big-Ten tournament beating Michigan by 10, Purdue by 11 and Wisconsin by 17.

Seth Godin’s Spring cleaning tips

daveorsborn — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:19:09 +0000

Seth has posted some great spring cleaning tips.

I’ll add one of my own: check your fire extinguishers- or if you don’t have one, buy one and keep it near the kitchen.

Spring forward

daveorsborn — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:13:54 +0000

It’s time to reset the myriad of wall clocks in the Orsborn house- not to mention watches, car clocks, coffee maker, microwave, oven…..

For anyone intrigued by the history of Daylight Savings Time here is a primer from the Deseret News.

Your back: The Spinal Frontier

daveorsborn — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:36:07 +0000

I hurt my back a couple of weeks ago while shoveling snow. Now, I found this timely article on Outside Online.

I plan on trying these excercises tonight with the hope of having a stronger, healthier back.

Pizza for Pesos

daveorsborn — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:47:14 +0000

Pizza Patron has announced that their Pizza por Pesos promotion will become permanent.

Pizza Patron also announced that they are ending the less successful “Gyros for Euros” promotion.