I’ve always seen Sony as one of the dumbest companies in the world. A lot of the decisions they make with their products are forehead-slappingly stupid (PS3…less functionality for the same price).

Their latest ad campaign hasn’t done much to change my mind either. They tout their new Vaio P laptop as being “pocket-sized”…as illustrated in this photo of a chick trying to wedge the thing into her incredibly tight rear pocket. Bravo, Sony.

Gizmodo has some pretty awesome user-created spin-off ads too.

[Gizmodo]

There’s nothing worse than losing all of the data on your computer, especially when most peoples’ lives revolve around their digital companions. Over the holidays, my brother and my sister-in-law both lost everything, one due to a hardware malfunction and one to an accident while installing Apple’s Leopard operating system. Now they’re forced to start from scratch. The data on the malfunctioning hard drive could theoretically be recovered…for about $500. This is a scenario that can easily be avoided. You can hop online and find tons of deals on external hard drives to make backups of your important files. Most desktop and laptop computers nowadays have DVD burners built in. USE THEM! A single-layer DVD-R can hold 4.7 gigabytes of data. That’s a crap-load of pictures/songs/documents. If you’re lucky enough to be running Mac OSX Leopard (10.5), the built-in Time Machine application is absolutely brilliant. All you need is an external hard drive and it will automatically make backups of everything on your computer.

In short, take advantage of the tools that are easily available to you and don’t risk losing important data.