hi there!
I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!

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I've got a Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (oooh, big number so it must be impressive right?) because it's the only mouse I've found so far that works on my desk, which isn't anything special - just you typical laminated woodgrain top like most desks at Officeworks. It looks like this: Anyway, recently...
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Some TV station in the US (KCal 9 if that means anything to you) did a Today Tonight style investigation into computer repair fraud, segment below thanks to Youtube. All they did was unplug the IDE ribbon cable connecting the hard drive to your motherboard (the bit that co-ordinates all the functions...
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I've been fiddling with my computer recently, trying to get it to all work nicely after I inherited some new parts. I have a seperate partition on my hard drive for the purposes of testing Windows Vista RC1. After having to repair my XP installation due to a change in motherboard chipset and CPU...