Ultrium 4, where art thou?

We're starting to near capacity on our tape library at work, and I'm itching to buy a new system to augment it.  Ultrium 4 (or LTO 4) is right around the corner, but no vendor can tell me yet when they're going to have the drives.  Ultrium 3 is available now, but if I can wait a few months to double the capacity of my library and increase the speed of my drives by 50%, I'm inclined to wait.

We've been using Ultrium 2 for the last four years, and while it has worked well, a full backup of the servers I do backups for is now approaching 30 tapes, and storing and moving them is getting to be a pain.

First one to show up on my door with an LTO 4 library gets the purchase order...

Terrorist Moose

As if RPGs weren't enough of a threat to our helicopters, now we have to worry about suicidal moose attackers taking them down.

Dear News Media

Dear News Media,

No one outside her family gives a damn about Anna Nicole Smith's burial location, or the fight over her corpulent plastic corpse.  Please stop covering it.

Thank you.

House for sale in Sandy Valley

It has taken many months, but my parents have finally put their house up for sale.  If you're looking for a house near Las Vegas, check it out!

PayPal/eBay Security Key

My security key arrived last night from PayPal/eBay.  I've activated it, and it seems to work pretty well.  They're in the early stages of deploying this, but for $5, my accounts are a lot more secure.

Their implementation requires you to login with your username and password, the way you do today, but then also requires you to push the button on the front of your keyfob and enter the six-digit code that appears there.  The code changes every 30 seconds, so that even if someone does see your code, they have very little time to do something with it.

If you use PayPal or eBay much, I'd suggest ordering yourself a key as an extra layer of security on your accounts.