[Phsstpok]

Oooo, Ooooo! I know a couple of those!

Which rock star toured Africa with a Treasury Secretary?

Bono, and the Treasury Secretary in question is the subject of the next question

What corporation did Secretary O'Neill head before signing onto the cabinet?

He was CEO of Alcoa (and chairman, I think)

I know both of those because I know (knew) Paul O'Neill. Before he headed Alcoa he was President of the company I still work for. I was the PC guy who worked on his PC and he was one of my early adopters of PC stuff in that company in the early 80s. I got to know him pretty well.

I have a million things like this stored in my brain, rodguy. Perhaps it's why I can't find my car keys sometimes...storage overload!

I'm counting on an auxiliary memory unit being available soon from someplace like Radio Shack.  It will go along with the Star Trek like vision system that they'll plug into me to replace my failing eyes.  Of course, there are issues with both of those ideas.  The vision system will have to be highly computerized, maybe even complex enough to be considered AI.  What if that system decides that there are certain things just too nasty to show me?  Say there's a really ugly lady and the system chooses to show me someone really nice looking, as in Shallow Hal?  Or how about there's a truck bearing down on me and the system decides to spare me the anxiety of seeing it coming?  Or would the memory system selectively edit out or add certain things to my memory?  And I can only hope that it's not based on Windows software.  Can you imagine a "blue screen of death" type error for either system?

[Bahbah]

Phsstpok, did you happen to see Captain Ed's piece on Star Trek today? If you are or were a fan, you might enjoy it.

[Miss Marple]

My post above should have been directed to you as well. Sorry!