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Techtree.com in India is reporting that there are privacy concerns with search engines saving your browsing information.   Really?  This was news a few years ago in the US, we know what we are giving them and respect that they will use the information to make their products more marketable.  In turn they will conitnue to give us “free” access to their services, and we should be guarded with what information we give them.   At least the tech and privacy savy user does.

Why I ran across this on Google News this morning I have no idea.   This should be nothing new, yet it makes the news.   Sorry just dealing with a little annoyance in my cereal this morning.

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Though I don’t think it’s related to the search engine privacy story, Google has just released a web book for free titled Browser Security Handbook.   Some people are relating to this as Google’s answer to the security (and privacy) issues raised by Chrome.  Others belive it’s a way of giving back to the community based on the way Google looks at these concerns and how they address them.

Currently I’m reading through and thought I would share.   You can go to the project page, download test cases, or read it online.   If you have any interest in this field I suggest you at least do one of them.

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I found the following video on Youtube.

It’s been a long belief that yelling, screaming, and sometimes hitting actually do something to make a computer work better. I’m in the belief that the more you know about computers the more true you find the previous sentence. Most people just think that you are nuts or crazy, however watching the video you can now see there is an effect. For those wondering though, if you didn’t save your document and your whole computer crashes, no amount of screaming or brutal violence against the computer is going to bring the information back.

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A few months ago my home server lost all of my MP3’s from a share.  I was freaking out thinking some process had magically deleted them.  Then I noticed the partition was missing.   I spent a few days banging my head against the wall trying to recover the data and nothing helped.   Since I’m a listener of Security Now, I attempted to use Spin Rite on the drive, even this didn’t help it.   I was freaking out.

I set aside the drive and re-addressed it yesterday.  A friend of mine had a copy of Partition Doctor 3.5 and we ran it against my drive.   In a matter of minutes we managed to get the drive back up and all of the MP3’s were there.   Neither my wife and I were too anxious to go through the 2-3 week ripping process we did last time when we re-ripped at a higher bit rate.

This is not a promotion, I get no money from the links you click, if however you do have an issue with a lost windows partition, try Partition Doctor’s demo version and it will show you if it can be recovered.

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I think I knew from our first date that my wife was going to be the one I was going to marry.   Granted I literally broke up with my ex the day before I asked her out, but it all worked out.   Though I was twenty -one and she was eighteen it was the first real date either of us had been on.   We had started “going out” with people before, but it was always meeting and doing things in social situations then you labeled as a couple and doing things was just being together and not really a date.  I did ask one girl out on a date previously, but it turned into a double date, so this was my first real date.

It was in September of 1997 and I managed to get off work early and get a hair cut, then I went out to one of our customers and bought her a bouquet of roses.   We went to Chi-Chi’s in Lorain, Ohio driving there in my 1986 Ford Escort.  I ordered a mexican pizza which they burned and she had me send back, and I believe she ordered the chimichanga’s .   We talked about going to the movies afterward and decided on Conspiracy Theory.   Walking to the car I asked her if I was the type of guy she could fall in love with (me=geek, not the best social skills).  She said maybe.   I asked her if I was the type of guy she could see herself marrying, she said she didn’t know.   We then drove over to the movie and had a wonderful time.

A few days later she was having problems with her parents, she was at a cross roads and all upset.  She was sitting on the front stoop of her friends house and that was the first time I ever told her I loved her.  She cried in my arms (not from me saying that, but because of the other stress) and said it back to me.   Three months later we were engaged. Thirteen months later on Jan 2, 1999 we got married.  From that first date until about 2004 when she went back to Ohio to visit family while I was stuck working in Oregon, we never spent more then 24 hours away from one another, over 2600 days of seeing each other at least once every day.

I’m not going to saying everything has always been fantastic, we’ve had our ups and downs.  We have managed to stay together and stay in love.   I love her more each day, and now she is going to be the mother of my child (last year we did say we would do something special for our 10th).  We are opposites, but we are also twins, we are stronger together then we are apart.  We are both critical thinkers, yet I’m the only one that thinks she is the better of the two of us - so sometimes she is wrong.

She is the core of my being and the center of my universe, even though I don’t always show it.   Her thoughts and dreams revolve around mine, like mine do around her.   She is my wife, and I love her.