Python Is Accidentally Shipped to N.J.
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CLIFTON, N.J. - The story of Paco the Python is a serpentine tale of a pet snake accidentally shipped from Missouri to New Jersey in a box with a DVD player being sent for repairs.
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The ugly sweater with the tags missing. The book you already have. The digital camcorder you couldn't figure out how to use.
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At Fry's this afternoon, where I bought two 500GB Firewire drives. Which it turns out I needed because after I got home all three external drives attached to my desktop were reported as damaged beyond repair by the new Mac OS. Coincidence? Lucky that I had exactly the hardware I needed to dig out of the mess? Who knows!
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Awarapan: Preserved your ticket and await a refund.
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Online payment Web site PayPal.com was back in service late last night after a coding error disrupted service for four days.
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DUBLIN : An Olympic Airlines plane diverted to Ireland following a bomb alert, the second faced by the Greek carrier in four days, resumed its journey to New York after no device was found on board, airport officials said.
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Siblings are the first ever to be convicted for sending boatloads of junk e-mail pushing bogus products. Also: Microsoft takes MSN music download on a Euro trip....  Nokia begins legal battle against European counterparts.... and more.
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Looks like I'll get the drive back soon. First I got a call from the Emeryville store, then I got a call from a person in Apple Executive offices (she gave me her name and number, but I'm not going to publish it here). I'll report back when I have more info. PS: The number of idiotic comments has gone way up.
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EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. - New Jersey Turnpike officials are trying to find the owner of a parrot that dropped in on them unexpectedly...
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(InfoWorld) - E-mail archiving and recovery software has proved itself useful in the case of the American who flew to Europe even though he had tuberculosis (TB). The Fulton County, Georgia, Department of Health and Wellness tried to prevent Andrew Speaker, of Atlanta, from traveling to Europe for his wedding and honeymoon in May because his drug-resistant form of TB could make him contagious to other airline passengers. Speaker has said in media interviews that he had not been told he couldn't fly. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper covering the case filed an open records request with Fulton County Georgia Government to disclose e-mail messages among health officials in which Speaker's case was discussed. The Fulton County case illustrates how e-mail archiving software can facilitate e-discovery, the process by which organizations retrieve internal electronic documents sought in a government investigation, a lawsuit, or other matters. The market for "active e-mail archiving" software grew to $207 million in 2006, based on licensing revenue, a 42.8 percent increase from 2005, according to the research firm Gartner, which forecasts a $1 billion market by 2011. The top two vendors are Symantec, with $110 million in revenue and a 23 percent share, and Zantaz, with $106 million and a 22 percent share, according to IDC. Autonomy, a British software company, announced July 3Â plans to acquire ZantazÂ for $375 million. Fulton County uses Symantec's Enterprise Vault software. "All I basically had to do was say. ... I want any e-mails retrieved for me that involved the name Andrew Speaker," said Rich Diller e-mail administrator for Fulton County. The software retrieved about 200 pages of e-mail correspondence related to Speaker's case. Based on those documents, the Journal-Constitution was able to report in a June 13 story that although health department officials were scrambling to find a legal way to prevent Speaker from getting on a plane, he had already left. The county retrieved the requested e-mail messages in about 90 minutes. Had the software not been available, the search would have been "your proverbial nightmare," said Diller. "It would have been me opening up individual mailboxes and constructing one-off searches on each mailbox and compiling all the data." Fulton County Government has 7,000 e-mail boxes, said Robert Taylor, chief information officer for the county. "We could not do an enterprise search [manually]. It would have taken us weeks or months," Taylor said, adding that the county gets four to five document search requests each week. Drivers for the growth of e-discovery technology are many: Most all business communications today are done electronically; new U.S. Federal Rules for Civil Procedure (FRCPs) require companies to establish a policy on how electronic documents are preserved and organized; and some enterprises have been embarrassed by sloppy lapses in saving electronic files sought in various cases. But awareness of e-mail archiving appears limited. An independent survey commissioned by another vendor, C2C Systems, revealed that only 24 percent of IT professionals surveyed could identify an e-mail archiving product by name and 37 percent felt that using PSTs was sufficient for e-mail archiving. The file name extension .PST is for personal files, including e-mail. But that is not an adequate archiving tool, said Nick Mehta, vice president of product management at Symantec. PSTs (the actual term is personal information store) are hard to search if they are scattered among multiple desktops. Symantec's Enterprise Vault copies all e-mail, voice mail and instant messages into secured storage and classifies them based on rules the enterprise sets for what needs to be saved, Mehta said. The software also deduplicates the data, eliminating multiple copies of the same messages, to more efficiently use storage capacity. Messages can be saved for 90 days, seven years or forever depending on the company's rules. The database is keyword searchable to retrieve files as needed. Smaller players in the market can also do well. "This market is. ... on fire," said Mike Ivanov, senior director of the archiving business at CommVault Systems, whose sales doubled to $10 million in 2006, from 2005. Speaker remains in treatment at a TB hospital in Denver, in which he is quarantined by order of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. News reports last week revealed that his TB was not as contagious as originally diagnosed.
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REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Sept 13 (Reuters Life!) - Dusty,   rusty and dark, a shipping container may seem an unappealing   home to anyone but, perhaps, a rat.
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AN Olympic Airways plane bound for New York with 295 passengers aboard was being diverted to Shannon airport in Ireland after an Athens newspaper received warning of a bomb on board, a company spokesman said.
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A product designed to protect Web surfers from phishing and pharming attacks is expected to ship on Monday. Symantec's Norton Confidential will be available from the Web site, with a shrinkwrapped version due in November.
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CHICAGO _ You better watch out/ you better not cry/ you better order now/ I'm telling you why ...  Shipping costs are going to rise.  That could become a familiar verse this week if you haven't yet finished your online holiday shopping.
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DUBLIN, Sept 29  - An Olympic Airlines plane diverted to Ireland following a bomb alert, the second faced by the Greek carrier in four days, resumed its journey to New York Wednesday after no device was found on board, airport officials said.
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SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian wildlife worker pulled a 7-foot python out of a septic tank Wednesday after a plumber found it hiding in a woman's toilet, officials said.
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[World News] Washington, Oct 6: A suitcase reportedly containing Beatles memorabilia, that was stolen from George Harrison&#39;s sister Lou has been recovered by the police, but the photographs are missing.