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Insanely detailed (and footnoted) 9-11 timeline. Leans toward the conspiracy side if that interests or outrages you. Either way, the depth is amazing.
If everything were this easy...
My friends second generation iMac had a severe crash that rendered the machine unbootable. They took it to Tek Serve where they were told the problem was a hard disk hardware failure, with no chance of recovery. One night, in a (most likely) drunken state I was boasting that they should let me take a crack at it. Although I do know a lot about Macs, I also know that Tek Serve is very good. So if they couldn't rescue it, I probably couldn't either.
But, I figured it would at least give me a chance to try the Mr. Barrett hard drive in the freezer trick. I've been dying to wow someone with that. Of course I'd only try it if all other avenues had been exhausted.
So first I put the drive into a blue & white g3 tower and tried to boot it. No luck, and worse, the drive was making some scary sounds as it spun up. So I popped Disk Warrior into the CD tray and rebooted from that. It couldn't mount the drive, but it was seeing it. So I let DW repair the directory structure. 10 seconds later the drive mounts on the desktop. I copied all the data onto my other drive without incident (although I don't know how much data was originally on the drive, so possibly some things were still lost - although it really doesn't look that way.)
So the obvious question is: why doesn't Tek Serve run Disk Warrior in every case like this? I really can't believe they don't. Maybe the drive "fixed itself" slightly by just sitting for a few days? Seems unlikely too. I wonder what the real story is.
I'll be at the Central Park anti-war rally today in the East Meadow. I'll report from the scene in the comment thread below.
"Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage the plane."
- Richard Reid
I've put up a longer review of the T-Mobile Sidekick. Executive summary: yes.
Current high score on the built in asteroids game on my mobile: 38825. Damn them for including that.
I fixed the problem with email notification for new comments (this was only a problem for registered users, I believe that unregistered email notification was working fine.) So now I get an email whenever someone leaves a comment here. Click the link in the emal and I'm looking at the new comment on my mobile (I think I'm going to call it a mobile since it's not really a phone.) So response times should be much improved.
In other news, I think t-mobile might regret giving me unlimited data. Mwahahahah.
Multiple police helicopters hovering over the east village. Im on a and 5th walking north trying to see what is going on.
Helicopter sweeps (very low) from just north of tompkins to up past 14th.
Ave a is closed northbound at 13th.
14th is closed east of a. Lots of people standing around. Lots of cops. Mounted units. A lady behind me says somebody got shot and they don't have the shooter yet.
That's bad but not so bad. With all those copters in that area I always worry about the huge con ed plant over there. Seems like a decent terrorist target. Of course I'm completely paranoid.
Fox is on the scene, so it's not like this is a scoop or anything. I'll see if any of the photos came out when I get home.
Well, the sidekick picture taking ability is limited. To say the least. The photos are low res and very small. But it's still kind of cool to have a camera with you where ever you go. The unit holds 32 pictures, but you don't really need to hold them because you can attach them to an email and send them to yourself. There doesn't seem to be a way to get uploading through a web form to work. So, of course, what we need is a script on the server side to watch a particular mailbox, and add any picture attachments arriving to the database so that I can include them in my posts. Shouldn't be too hard. Here's an article with the necessary MIME information about email attachments. Now I just have to make it work.
First post from the new device. The web browser is slick. Going out for a walk now. I want to see what sort of reception this thing gets.