Why, oh why, did Firefly die?

I’m in the process of re-watching all the episodes of Firefly. Again. It’s that good. It’s so good I’m contemplating buying it on Blu-Ray just to have it.

(I don’t have a Blu-Ray player).

I was looking at the Entertainment Earth website and saw this amazing monstrosity:

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The “Too Late” Info on Drive-By Malware

Ah – by the time you read this, it will be too late.

By that I mean that after you’ve been hit by some Drive-By Malware — some website that forces your computer to run a fake anti-virus scan, etc. — then you’re already compromised. If it’s really clever software, it’ll disable your internet access so that you won’t be able to find an article like this.

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Blown Away by the New Dyson Fan

I saw the new fan from Dyson last night – it really is bladeless! I was in Bed Bath & Beyond and I felt like a little kid as I put my hand through it and couldn’t figure out how it was blowing the air.

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Free Software to Recover Digital Photos from a Flash Card Error

So I’ve got a bunch of photos on my camera’s (It’s a Canon EOD 20D) compact flash card (a Kingston 4GB compact flash card).

These are old photos I didn’t delete (as a just-in-case measure) of a woman I photographed as well as photos from my recent trip to NYC for a WordPress Meetup and also photos I took of cooking Dr. Johns’ Chili and making homemade protein bars. A lot of stuff.

So I put the card into my computer’s card reader slot and it tells me the card is EMPTY and would I like to format it?

Uh… NO!

I put it back in the camera and the camera just said CF ERROR or whatever the little camera LCD readout equivalent of that is… I got the idea.

Crap.

Oh don’t worry! I was able to recover the photos. Read on…

Around 11:30pm
Around 11:30pm?

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