Got porn on your PC? Take it to Geek Squad if you want it copied!

Apparently they consider collecting porn to be an easter egg hunt. The problem is, if your computer is not working, there's no way to clean it up prior to taking it in for repairs. So I guess keep the salacious stuff on an external HD.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/peep-squad-iii-.html

Microsoft is opening a software R&D office in Vancouver

Interesting. They're having problems getting foreign talent into the US, so they're moving them to Canada, just a proverbial hop skip and jump from the corporate HQ.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/technology/070705/z070502A.html

and the Slashdot thread: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/05/2134249