But then I remembered an email someone had sent me recently about a professor and a jar - a great read and very thought-provoking - and it occurred to me that I’d better take care of the golf balls… so I called my office, made sure nothing important was waiting for me, and then told my wife I’d see her at school. (more…)

One of the funnier things I encountered during my rounds, however, was that some athletes kept leaving their keys in the doors!  Each time, I would debate whether to pull the key out, or if I was going to inconvenience someone who had just run to the bathroom or something… but I followed my common sense and would collect the key to take down to the security post, while writing a note to ask the room occupant why they left their keys in the door. (more…)

Hi all - been a long time since I had any updates, and been quite busy and travelling quite a bit.  Today, I thought I’d share with you the story of how I made it to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

At the time, I was studying (well ok, that’s a bit of a stretch) at the University of Southern California - and I saw an ad inviting people to apply as security personnel for the Olympic Villages. (more…)

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /On=C: /For=C: /Maxsize=5GB

where /On=C: and /For=C: represent the drive where the files are stored, and for which drive - if you have only one hard disk, both will be C: - but if you have more than one drive, change /On to one of the other drives for better performance and security. /Maxsize=5GB is the amount of space you want to allocate - in this case 5 gigabytes. (more…)

What was most unusual was that every time I went through my cleaning routine, I would go to check my disk space - and the amount available didn’t increase, it decreased! (more…)

Though the Guinness Book of World Records obviously hasn’t certified this fact, an estimated 60 million people (well, the population of Thailand, give or take a few million, plus many foreigners) throw and splash water at each other over this three-day period which celebrates the arrival of the new lunar year. (more…)

Fortunately for some of us, a few leaked beta copies of Vista SP1 found their way onto the Internet, and one of these made my computer tolerable, at least until now.  Yesterday you read a bit about the hassles I encountered when installing SP1, but you’ll be glad to know that once I removed the Nokia drivers, things went smooth as silk.

So today is a special day of sorts - next year I’ll be able to proudly mark March 21st as the day my notebook began to act like a notebook should.

But did it make things better for casino software? (more…)

I’m sure all of you have experienced the frustration of the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death), or else some error which keeps one of your programs from working properly - and all you get is a cryptic error message like “Error 0×80073712 - Get Help”.

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The most interesting piece of data I came across was that, at this particular moment, Playtech’s jackpots have an increase rate which is more than all other jackpots combined - needless to say “all other” includes Microgaming and Cryptologic and all the other major software manufacturers. (more…)

A couple of software platforms have yet to respond to my requests for information - kind of strange considering it’s essentially free promotion for them - but I’ll keep knocking and either I’ll get the information from the horse’s mouth or I’ll get the information from a bug on the wall of the stable of the horse - one way or another I get what I want, so if you’re reading this and have received a request for information from me, might be a good idea to give me the official version… (more…)