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Today is the 25th anniversary of the first computer virus to spread in the wild. It was written by a 15 year old in Pittsburgh PA. You can read more about it here. Happy birthday you annoying malware you.

Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone. And it’s free. Google doesn’t charge you a thing for the call or for connecting you to the business. Regular phone charges may apply, based on your telephone service provider.

To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone.

Here is a link to the Google site.

New inkjet printer technology that analysts believe will revolutionize the imaging industry was unveiled today by secretive Silverbrook Research. The company has released astounding videos of desktop, photo and wide-format printers that print pages and photos 5 to 10 times faster than products from current printer market leaders HP, Canon, Epson and Lexmark. You can read the entire article and watch the amazing video here.

Bill Gates sat down with Jon Stewart of the Daily Show for an interview regarding the release of Vista. It’s nothing to exciting but pretty funny to watch. I was hoping Jon would put Bill on more of a hot seat. Oh well….

If you would like to see and experience Windows Vista but not quite ready to commit (I understand) you can do so at this site. You can also give the new Office 2007 a try as well. A great way to see what it’s all about easily.

Well if you run Windows 2000 server you may want to take notice. Microsoft has stated that they will not be offering a patch for the new US Daylight Saving Time for Windows 2000 and earlier. Only customers with an extended support agreement can get a Hotfix from Microsoft. Never fear though. IntelliAdmin has an unofficial patch that will correct the problem using information taken from a Microsoft KB article. They have two versions and one of them allows you to remotely update machines on your network. Very nice. Check out some of their other applications while you’re there. They have utilities to enable remote desktop remotely on a machine and to remotely disable USB and CDROM drives. Good stuff.

Today is the 40th birthday of StarTrek. This being a geek related site I just had to mention it. I have a link here with information about that first, ever so important, broadcast. As a geek where would I be with out StarTrek and it’s important lessons about traveling the galaxy and dating green women?