Blackberry outage

BlackBerry Blackout Across U.S., Canada

I’m curious, why exactly any Blackberry data pass through RIM’s servers at all? Data only needs to go from your device to your carrier, then out to the mail server actually hosting the mailbox in question.

Given the repeated outages as of late, why aren’t RIM users up in arms? Swap out for a Palm or Windows Mobile device, and skip one of the middlemen.

Starting an administrative/elevated program on bootup under Vista

This is for all you Vista users who are tired of manually launching every time you reboot: Here is how to set a program which requires elevation to start automatically in Windows Vista without prompting for elevation.

  1. Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Task Scheduler
  2. In the right pane, click “Create Basic Task”
  3. Enter a name for the task (can be anything), then click Next
  4. Select “When I Log On” then click Next
  5. Leave “Start a Program” checked and click Next
  6. In the Program field enter the name of the EXE and optional arguments, then click Next
  7. Check the box “Open the Properties dialog…”, then click Finish
  8. Check the “Run with highest privileges” box, click OK.

You are done. Next time you reboot, your app will start automatically after logon.

Easy, huh?

Delete your MySpace day

Yet another useless holiday?  Not quite… This upcoming Wednesday is International Delete Your MySpace Account day. Finally something to celebrate.

Also looks like there is some happy reading in Wired’s related articles, including

Myself, I won’t be partaking, although only because it’s too much work to figure out how to create my first MySpace account just to delete it a couple days later.