Between Doc, John, and myself , I'm about ready to give up on technology. Outlook choked over the weekend and lost all my email passwords. Oddly, it did this right after I installed the latest security patch. What could be more secure than allowing no one, even me, to get to my email? Luckily I have two of my three email passwords memorized. Unfortunately, my Hotmail password is gone baby, gone. NOw, I could just use my old machine for reading my hotmail messages, which are by and large spam, but I also use it for osme semi-personal communications, and it's my oldest email address, so I would like to be able to access it as I occasionally get mail from old friends there.

So, how do I get access again? I'll see if Hotmail has a password recovery system in place. OK, no problem, Hotmail has a hoop to jump through to get a new email password. While this assumes that I told them my actual state, country and zip when I signed up, I should haev  no worries. I tell them what happened, and I get an email chain going that ends with a rep telling me that I need to contact the OEM of my PC in order to resolve this issue.

Excuse me, but how the hell is Sony going to know my Passport ID and password?

I ask as much, in a far kinder fashion, of the latest in a series of drones who has been progressively asking me for more and more information while simultaniously telling me this is all an SEP, and then handing me off to the next guy.

I'll keep you all posted as to the results of this fun little descent into madness later.

I know that I mentioned getting a new PDA  the other day, and migrating my data over was a joy. First, I installed all the software that went along with the new machine. Installed smoothly, no worries whatsoever. I installed the additional software, which included a univeral remote control that has a 15' range, as well as a variety of other software. All went smoothly, no worries whatsoever. So I decide to install my handspring Visor on the new PC, so that I can sync it once and then uninstall, insuring that ALL my files come over.

More later.

9:59:30 PM    

GM mosquito resistant to malaria parasites - New Scientist 05-22-2002. The GM mosquito that stops malaria  - South China Morning Post
Gene Researchers Create Malaria-Resistant Mosquito  - Yahoo! Headlines
GM mosquito could prevent malaria spread  - Ananova [Google Technology News]

So, whay aren't ehy creating a super mosquito that will create a malaria vaccine in it's belly instead?

7:09:17 PM    

Big Blimp That Apparently Couldn't. Sixty-five years after the Hindenburg exploded and effectively ended the era of the zeppelin, Carl von Gablenz's dream of lighter-than-air transportation is crashing and burning as well. By Edmund L. Andrews. [New York Times: Business]

I remember reading about this company in Wired a while ago. Sorry to see that their vision will not likely come to fruition. The only solution that I can think of to keep the blimp form shooting skyward after dropping it's cargo is to teather it to the loading dock, and run some massive pelitier coolers to compress the helium, negating some of it's lifting ability until it is time to lift off again. I Am Not An Engineer.

10:02:55 AM