Colorado Hickenlooper's state office computer not backed up?: Loses eight months of appointment data open to public inspection

So the state of Colorado doesn't back up the computer records for the governor of Colorado? From Channel 9 in Denver:

The governor's calendar is subject to public inspection under the Colorado Open Records Act. Exceptions in the law allow record custodians to withhold personal appointments and details of security arrangements. 

"Some personal information is kept on the calendar to help avoid conflicts when scheduling other events," Figa said. . . . 

Hickenlooper's staff has been reluctant to reconstruct his whereabouts during the lost calendar span because absolute accuracy could not be assured. His spokesman was unable to respond to questions about the lost calendar entries Friday, citing the demands on the governor's time that arose from the shooting at Arapahoe High School in Centennial. . . .

Another unintended Consequence of government regulation

If you happen to be buying a new windows machine these days and you get upset about how long it takes to start up, know that about a minute of that three minute start up time when you turn your machine on occurs because Microsoft can no longer control part of the user experience and that is true thanks to the Department of Justice.

Walt Mossberg says his Vista startup experience was pretty horrid because of the tons of ads and other things that OEMs load onto the OS. They do that to try to make a few extra bucks on each machine sold. Microsoft can’t stop them because the DOJ made it impossible to push around the OEMs and keep them from ruining the startup experience. . . .

It appears from Walt Mossberg that the start up time for Vista would still much slower than Macs even without this extra software, but an additional minute when you are having to already wait 2 minutes for your machine to start seems pretty long.

Restarting took over three minutes, and a cold start took more than two minutes. That suggests the computer is loading a bunch of stuff I neither know about nor want. By contrast, a brand new Apple MacBook laptop, under the same test conditions, restarted in 34 seconds and did a cold start in 29 seconds. . . .