I don’t know about you, but I am not very excited about any of the choices for president this year. I am going to keep my reasons to myself, because I don’t want to start a war with anyone. I thought it would be interesting though, if everyone who didn’t like the choices for President (seems to be the consensus from most everyone I have talked to), voted for Bart Simpson for President.

It would be really simple. All you would have to do is write his name on the ballot in the space they provide when you have someone else in mind for president. I don’t know what the country would do if the count came out and Bart Simpson won the election. Would Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson) become the new Pres? Or would it be the writers of the show. Or would they have to declare Martial Law because there is no president because the elected doesn’t really exist. Makes you think.

Here are some of the cool things that might happen if Bart Simpson were president.

Do you have more reasons that Bart Simpson should be president? Write a comment with your reasons.
 

I wrote a short article yesterday about several different people figuring out how to unlock phones so you don’t have to use AT&T as your network carrier if you own an iPhone. Today, I read an article about one company who were planning to release software for sale to allow everyone to unlock their phones. They received a call today from a law firm warning them that if they didn’t cease and desist, legal action would be taken.

This company is now looking at their own lawyers to see if they have to worry about AT&T. This looks like it just might become a big ordeal with all kinds of legal matters. AT&T may just tie up these companies with so much legal hoopla that it may just take them four and a half years before they come to some kind of reconciliation. By then AT&T’s contract with apple will be up and they will be on to the next big thing.

I do think that there is going to be free unlocking software that is going to be passed around the internet. You will be able to get some kind of freeware that will work just like apple’s software. Then you will be able to use your iPhome with any carrier you like.

We will see what happens.

I read today in a New York Times article that there have been several people who have bipassed AT&T’s Locks on the iPhone so they can use it on a different wireless network. I think this is great. When the phone first came out I was extremely annoyed that AT&T for staking a monopoly on the iPhone. I wanted one, and there is no way I was going to buy one if they could only be used with AT&T. I don’t like AT&T. Their business history is built on holding a grip on their customers and forcing them to pay crazy prices for their services.

I think this little iPhone Crack falls in along the lines of altering your PS2 to play copied PS2 Games. It is also in line with the person who broke the DVD code a few years ago so people could copy DVDs whenever they wanted to. The only difference that I see is that altering your own iPhone (especially if you bought it out right from the apple store) to work with your own carrier should not be illegal. It’s your device and you should have the freedom to use any carrier you want.

George Hotz put one of the altered iPhones up on eBay. It aparently was bid up to several thousand dollars. Now it seems that there are many unlocked iPhones on ebay.

If you are interested in the two sources who actually have unlocked the iPhone, check out George Hotz’s Blog and iPhoneSimFree.com. I found the information intereting even though I have no interest in buying an iPhone at that price. I will wait ’til the technology comes down in price.

Sometime this month a Michel is going to take a balloon ride into the Stratosphere where he will jump at 130,000 feet. He plans to be the first skydiver to break the sound barrier. He is attempting to break 4 different world records.

• Altitude record for freefall
• Altitude record for human balloon flight
• Time record for longest freefall
• Speed record for fastest freefall

I look forward to seeing Michel succeed in this feat. Take a few moments to check out the following websites.

• Article on aero-news.net
• Legrandsaut.org
• The Super Jump Blog

August 25, 2007 - It seems that it is more difficult to safely skydive from this height. Michel and his crew are postponing the jump ’til the summer of 2008. I was looking forward to this jump this month… but the safty of michel is more important than jumping unprepared.  I look forward to the new attempt next year.

Check Out the Yahoo Article.

It is so crazy how we as a race have developed such technology that we are able to see planes circling some of the stars we see in the night sky. 28 new planets. One of those planets is only 30 light years from Earth.

4 more of the planets belong to star systems that contain more than one planet. Who knows. Maybe one of those planets will be able to sustain life and maybe eventually we will be able to contact them (in 30 years).

This is so exciting. Make sure you keep looking up.

Can you imagine a world without keyboards, a world with out the mouse, a world without wires? Well that world is going to be here sooner than you think. Microsoft has a new technology they are dubbing Surface. It basically turns any table or desk into your computer.

Imagine being able to place your phone, ipod or pda on the table and all the information within that item becomes instantly accessable on the table top. You can share with other devices, surf the internet and add all kinds of new information to your device. It is an amazing peice of technology and I cannot wait to see it come to fruition.

It amazes me how many people out there do not backup their files on a regular basis. I don’t know how many times I have heard from friends, family and even the occasional acquaintance about how their computer’s hard drive decided not to work anymore. It just stopped. That was it. No more. Some of these same people carried massive amounts of information on their laptops or home computers and would back it up when they thought about it every few months. Then when their computer died, the work they had done over the past month or two was completely lost.

There are ways to get information off a hard drive after it has gone bad, but they are not cheap. There are businesses out there that specialize in data recovery. They spend hours restoring what data they can from a dead hard drive. There is no guarantee that all the information can be recovered. The reason the hard drive died in the first place is because parts of the drive became unreadable.

Your hard drive will most likely die eventually. It is only a matter of time. The best way to keep from loosing information when this happens is to regularly backup your data. This can be done on CD or DVD from you operating software. I have heard some people who had two hard drives in their computer and backed up all their files from one drive to the other. If you have a network with a server, you could always backup the files to that server.

One of the newest ways that I have found is backing up your files online with a service that specializes in data storage. This is great because the data is not kept in the same place as your computer. So if your house or place of business burns down or floods or blows away in a hurricane, you should still be able to recover that data because it was not onsite where the damage happened.

One such company is idrive.com. Right now they offer FREE 2GB backup storage with no bandwidth limits. You can store your photos, media files or other important documents. This service is best suited for individuals and families. They have a pro version for companies or individuals who keep large numbers of files (like podcasts or videos). Take a moment to check out idrive.com. If you decide not to take advantage of their FREE offer, at least find another way to backup your computer files once a week. You never know when something bad is going to happen to your computer.

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