Archive for April 28th, 2009

I don’t remember

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

It seems that I have been having a serious problem remembering my passwords lately. I have acquired a number of them over the years and they are starting to add up. I have had to send off for reminders, but that has only led to having to remember the answers to the reminder questions!

One thing I did was to change my passwords to the same ones for multiple sites. That way I have reduced the number I needed to remember. I know that is not the greatest move as far as security is concerned, but I felt the need to do it. Anyway, what’s done is done and at least now I can access the sites I need too.

On the Road Again!

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Recently, I had a bit of trouble with my car. It had been running a little rough and it finally gave out. I knew that it would be expensive for me to take it to a repair shop, so I started to ask around. My friend Bob recommended that I use the place where he gets his Car Parts. Since he is a mechanic, I followed his advice.

I used the website called 24/7spares.co.uk. They had everything I needed. I compared the prices and decided I could save money by buying some Used Car Parts. I was glad to find the car breakers that I had been looking for. I must also admit that I was surprised at how fast the service was available. I’m glad I listened to my friend Bob and soon I’ll be back on the road!

Stamps

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

The U.S. Postal Service is planning to come out with new 44-cent stamps. These stamps will celebrate the Simpsons TV show. Each character on the show will have their own stamp. Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson will be stuck on envelopes everywhere.

The Postal Service receives about 50,000 stamp suggestions each year. Unfortunately, only around 20 can be selected. It would be fun though to come up with a stamp idea. Anyone who has a good stamp idea should feel free to send it in for consideration. I wish you would be stamp creators good luck!

The rising ocean

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Throughout the world, we are seeing the effects of the rising water levels in our ocean. One country that has reported a serious problem is France. With a coastline of over 186 miles, France is suffering erosion of its beaches. Scientist reported that climate change is responsible for the problem.

France’s tourism trade is bearing the brunt of the effects of sand and beach loss. The country has made efforts to limit the problem by dumping sand on its beaches, but that is expensive and a temporary fix as the sand erodes once again. There are emerging technologies such as hydraulic sand pumping that are being tested and used to mitigate the problem. I hope that the world will recognize the serious problem of global warming and begin to seriously address the issue!

Saving the day!

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, that’s Murphy’s Law and it has happened to us. We had a very important project we were working on at our office. After a month of hard work, we were nearly done. This job was for one of our most important clients and we really wanted to do a good job. As soon as we were ready for the next phase, that’s when disaster struck! The hard drive that contained the bulk of our hard won data failed.

Naturally, there was a major panic and no one seemed to have the answer to the problem. Much of the information on the drive could not be replaced. That’s when a thought occurred to me. Somewhere in the back of my mind I remembered hearing something about Data Recovery. I quickly went online and looked it up. Once I found the diskdoctors.net website, I knew I had found the answer. We shipped our drive to them and had an estimate on the recovery by the end of the day.

There was a big sigh of relief around the office when we heard they were successful. They must have worked around the clock to complete the job so quickly. With our valuable information back in our possession, we were able to finish the project on time and did quite well. We sent our many thanks to disk doctors for saving the day!