Mistakes are inevitable when you travel for a living. Flights are missed, visa forms are forgotten, and travel pillows and power adapters get left in hotel rooms. I've learned to live with those kinds ...

Windows: I recently had a suspicion that something was up with my hard drive. Spending a little time to figure out what was going on—and to confirm nothing bad was actually happening—saved me $200+, ...

Yesterday, one of my hard drives failed. I've seen this happen on Windows before and I've actually gotten an alert saying that my hard drive is dying. However, my failure yesterday never threw an ...