Ricky Martin’s Blog

So one of the many things that come with being the family IT person is that whenever something goes wrong with any digital device family members turn to me to try and fix it. I usually will take a look within reason and see what I can do or suggest a solution if it involves too much time or may be costly to repair.

Well today we had such a request. My sister in law and her boyfriend just came back from their first vacation down south together. And as is the case there were a lot of pictures taken with their digital camera. Only problem was on the last day they got an error on their camera and it was only showing their last 30 pictures from that day, the other 270 or so pictures had vanished.

Well after doing some research I found the highly recommended Zero Assumption Recovery Tool . The have a free utility for recovering digital images and a paid solution for other recovery options.

They even have a very easy to follow tutorial on how the product works. you can find it here.

The Tool works well, takes a bit of time as any recovery tool might, and end result managed to recover 306 pictures for them after it ran for a couple of hours. there were some pictures that did not recover completely but in the grand scheme of things a few pictures missing is better than all of them. They were happy with the results which is what always counts.

Well I have been kind of lazy of late with vacation and just life in general taking it’s tole on me. Maybe it is being back in the winter after so many years I am suffering from SAD. I don’t know but I am working on getting out of it right now.

And a couple of the goals I have set for myself are to write my next exam for the MCSE and get in the habit of writing a post at least once a day. Nothing fancy or too deep. But something interesting and of value.

Well that is my little post for today. I have scheduled my test already. And I am working on a couple of post that should be ready in the next few days.

Well the Olympics have started. And I am proud to say they are in Canada and more specifically Vancouver. Both Karen and I liked Vancouver a lot when we were there. Just happened that the situation at the time was not great which is why we left.

I really enjoyed watching the opening ceremonies on Friday. One of the things l liked the most was the poet. His poem really hit home and really captured a lot of what makes Canada Canada.

Looking forward to seeing the men’s hockey. As for the women’s hockey don’t think there will be much competition except maybe from the USA but after the first game that they had an 18-0 win and set an Olympic record for most goals in a game, I think it is a safe bet they will get a medal.

Here is The medal Standings (This should update as it changes):

And to keep up on the Ice Hockey action here is the Schedule and the results: