It’s been an interesting day.  I’ve had a job related assignment to review online backup services including the free backup online and online data backup services that you’re starting to see advertised now more and more heavily.

We tested three well known online backup service products on Windows 7 and Windows Vista SP2.  The results were not pretty.  I found I could not recommend any of them.  In fact, they were so new and so unfinished, that I am not allowed to even name them or discuss them here.

I posted as much on a message board (forum) I hang out on and got a response in just a few minutes that I should try Mozy.  Good call. Read the full story

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Spore, the latest release from EA (Electronic Arts) proves that imagination is in no short supply when it comes to new games.  In fact EA proves that the world of games can be not only stranger than you thought, but stranger than you can think.  The result is lovable, engrossing and dangerously time consuming.

You start life as a ‘cell’  You eat, mate and evolve to become bigger, stronger, smarter, faster and generally to eat more.  The more aggressive you are the more you evolve and the more other things follow you in your flock.  Periodically, you raid nearby camps, slaughter and eat them to gain power.  This is not dis-similar from my life in a large corporation. Read the full story

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