Saw lots of talk about this this morning on some various forums an Geek sites.  Seems that just the 30gb Zune players bricked themselves at 12am Dec 30th.  So far, no official word from Microsoft about what the hell is going on, though currently, it's common thought that the data/time bug might be related to it having been a leap year.

The good news is that many are unbricking by pulling the battery and reconnecting.  This sets the clock back to default and it's suggested that you leave it there untill M$ comes out with an official fix.  For more information, search for "Z2K" and "Zunicide" over at Zune.net

Those wacy Belgins @ MadShrimps took the Xirex water cooling system for a spin and had a few things to say about it.  Actually, they had lots to say and some pretty pictures to go along with it.

Personally, I have yet to get my hands on a water cooling rig, but I think it might just have to happen soon once the mercury starts rising in the Techography bunker.

So everyone and their mother pretty much knows by now that someone leaked a copy of the Beta for Windows 7 to the internet right? "So what?" you say?

Well, this isn't the first beta/pre-beta that been leaked, but so far this once really seems to work.  If you're really interested in it, I'm sure you won't have too much difficulty finding it on your favorite torrent site.  The best part is, M$ so far doesn't really seem to be pissed.  They are planning on releaseing an official beta in Jan anyway.  Also, the both the leaked version and the official version beta's seem to have a July 09' death date.  So M$ isn't sweating this one too much.

However, I'd just like to take a peak under the hood and see what it's got.  So, I'm sure I'll be downloading this when I get home and taking a little spin.  It will give me something else to play with since I also just started playing with a hackintosh.  Maybe once I get it up and running I'll take a few screen shots and post them up here.  Of Windows 7, not the Hackintosh, who hasn't seen OSX a million times already?

So Laurent Gaffi says there is a bug in Windows Media Player which could allow maleware to infect a PC by use of media files.  This tends to grab everyones attention because even the lamest of all PC users has figured out how to watch movies and listen to music on their PC's right?

Well, today MS says thats a bunch of crap and that the what Gaffi discovered is a "reliability issue with no security risk to customers,"

Let me think about that, a reliability issue, meaning that there "could" be code that "could" cause the software to work in a way it wasn't intended to.  Doesn't sound very reassuring does it?  Then agian, when doesn't MS products have a million issues with it?  It's just business as usual right?

For those that didn't want to catch the link, Gaffi says this issue exists in the following versions of WMP 9, 10 and 11.  Now go scan your tunes with your AV software and stop pirating music.  At least till there is a patch out.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From everyone at Techography!

In light of BS's resignation, I feel it's time to set Techography back on the course I had intended it for.  To be about Technology and helping the confused be less confused.

Before anyone even thinks it, BloodSpites leaving has nothing to do with he and I on a personal level.  In all honesty, I found out the same way that everyone else did, I read it here.  BS and I will talk soon I hope and I'll be sure to relay anything he wants known when that happens.  Untill then, I wish him luck with any endevors he's currently taking on.

Now, with the unpleasentries out of the way I'd like to say that I'm hoping to turn this site into an actual community of sorts.  Technology is ever changing and in current times, it's changing a lot.  Many are confused and frustraited and this is what I'd like to help combat.  So, my hope is that I can find some time in my work/life schedule to get back to doing what I set out to do in the first place.  Though I will admit that it was a lot easier to do this back in 99' when life hadn't landed on my head to it's fullest extent.

As always, I hope some of you will help from time to time and submit information to the site or even join in and become a staffer.  I never turn down anyone who's willing to help others in this arena. So keep an eye out, I hope to have things on their way very soon.

I'm done.

I'm resigning as a blog writer here at Techography.

Mainly because I don't have the drive anymore, or the will to do it.

For over 10 years I've written stories about me, the military, my family, my life, my world, places I've been, technology I've touched and everything we see and do. Over 1,000 articles, pictures, and stories.

I have been to 32 states and 16 countries. I have served in 4 war zones and over 200 technical roll outs for fortune 500 countries such as Wal Mart, Tyson, AT&T and Verizon.

I'm tired.

I don't have the time to dedicate to this like I used too. Between work, and going back to school, my creative ability is non-existent, and quite frankly over loaded with information.

I feel part gentlemen, and part redneck. I have no middle ground. I wear cowboy boots, dip Copenhagen, drink Guiness, quote Marcus Aurleius and compare my company policies to The Republic.

Its getting harder for me to type, both mentally and physically.

Three times I have attempted to post this article. Three times I have managed to muck it up somehow or my entire post is lost to oblivion, and my hands get me more and more aggrivated with every keystroke and misstype.

Calimus and I were web writers before there was a You Tube, a My Space, a Twitter, or a digg. Before such things as Trackbacks, pings, or ping backs. We wrote our posts in  long hand HTML, in Windows Notepad. We weren't called bloggers then. We were called Geeks. Or weird.

I'm sure at some point Cal will twist my arm to write here again. And he'll probably succeed. I love him like my brother as it is.

But for now I'm done. I just can't do it any longer. I have no love for the technology I work with. In fact I grow to hate technology more and more everyday as well as what it stands for.

I have helped build towers all over this country, until not a single vista does not have mans heavy handed works implemented in it like some gargantuan albatross that I will wear for the world to see what I helped create. I'm weary of it.

The company I now work for has so many polcies against this form of media it isn't even funny. And if my fellow bloggers think the in coming Administration will not find a way to censor their work i think they are badly mistaken. But that is there war to fight. I've had enough, and I've fought enough battles with words.

I weep for humanity, but humanity has no tears for itself.

I can not juggle my school, my work, and my life as well as attempt to place something here. I just can't. Not and it be something worth reading. If I wrote every day of the sadness, darkness and rage I feel when i walk in to a persons home whose children are nasty but they drive a Denali and live in the Ghetto either one of us would lose our mind, or you'd stop reading.

I'd rather stop writing. It's not worth the effort.

I will comment at my friends blogs. Probably more than I have been.

I will stay in contact with those I have met. I'm just that way, although as you well know my contacting ability is well...fractured at best.

As for myself, the curtain falls, the band leaves, the song is over and send in the clowns.

Someone turn off the lights, will you?

Please hang in there folks for a day.

I'll explain the whole lack of posting to a hilt tonight, and a pronouncement of sorts as well.

I'm on stand by for today as our systems are down, so i can't do the post I had been planning to do.

But I don't want today to go unremarked on by we here at Techography.

So with that in mind, here is an awesome round up of works on the memory of Pearl Harbor.

I'll try to contribute mine tonight if I can.

The Armorer presents "Air Raid, Pearl Habor- This is no Drill"

National Geographic: "Remembering Pearl Harbor"

National Park Service: " The USS Arizona"

The Volokh Conspiracy: Remember Pearl Harbor 2008

Michelle Malkin: Remembering Pearl Harbor 67 years later

Musings of a Vast Right Winger: Remembering Pearl Harbor

A Sense of Events: 67 Years

KnoxViews: No Silence Here

Third Saturday in Blogtober is reaching out to fellow Tennessee Volunteer sites for some assistance for a young man named Caleb.

I'm taking it a step further and am reaching out to you, dear readers and fellow bloggers..

Here's the scoop as written by theghostofneyland:

If you’re a frequenter to 3rd Saturday in Blogtober, you know that we consider Tennessee and Alabama to be “important” in our lives. Sometimes, football and basketball become so dominant that, if we’re not careful, we can let our sports allegiances control us. But, in our hearts, it is essential to us for our readers to know that we realize the difference between wins and losses and what is REALLY important in life.

Late this past summer just prior to the start of football season, our community was saddened to hear that 6-year-old Caleb Gill, a happy, beautiful little boy who attends First Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Tenn., was diagnosed with a brain tumor at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Since then, he has been undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments to try to shrink the tumor. While the road is long and sometimes seemingly never ending, we know that there is no limit to what our God can do. We know that with love, support, treatments and – most importantly – prayer, Caleb may one day be able to return to the normalcy of life.