• 21Dec

    I’m sitting at my laptop.  My desktop is running Seagate DiscWizard.  It’s a handy utility that came with my new hard disk drive.  It’s copying my old hard drive onto the new 1 terabyte drive.  The old drive is a 200 gigabyte that has been making some funny noises lately.  It sounds a lot like cicadas.  A high pitch drone that fades in and out periodically.  So, I bought a new hard drive.

    I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen someone loose a ton of important data from a hard drive failure… it’s never pretty.  That’s why I’m excited that I tuned in and heard my drive making this noise before it died.  I had time to get a replacement and save all my data.

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  • 02Dec

    Okay, so it is a bit early, and this isn’t a gaming site, but putting that aside…

    Peter Grandstaff’s Official Game of the Year Award goes to Fallout 3 by Bethesda Softworks.

    This is one heck of a game.  It’s been since Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion that I’ve enjoyed a single player game this much.  (Fallout 3 uses a modified version of the Oblivion engine.)  The story is compelling, but the game structure is only as linear as you want it to be.  You have complete freedom to explore the world at your own pace, and in your own style. Keep reading »

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