Well, the Large Hadron Collider is off the hook from killing us until next spring, so the tragic collapse of the Internet may beat it to the punch. [...]

Before you wonder: yes, I know better.
I discovered my first and, I hope, only casualty of the power outage that occurred the week of 14-19 September 2008: my 500Gb Western Digital NetCenter network attached storage device failed somewhere between the brownouts and the power finally going out.
It is the hard drive clicking and pinging kind [...]

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The Worldview Web Roundup is a periodic post of links to the news, commentary, and information I am reading right now. If you want to read more of the kinds of things found in this post check out Dennis L Hitzeman’s News Reading List. Do you have news or information you think needs to be rounded up? Email me at dlhweb1 at hitzeman dot com.

The Linksys Wireless G Music Bridge is one of the coolest electronic gadgets that I have purchased in a long time. In basic terms, the Music Bridge allows a user to transform a PC into a jukebox by connecting the PC to a home stereo system using a wireless B or G network and whatever music playing software the user already uses. It does so by redirecting the local PC audio from the PC speakers to the Music Bridge.