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This morning, my Zune had reset for some reason. Then after pushing the back button, it went to the startup screen and then completely locked up when the status bar hit 100%. I tried the "Back-Up" reset and that didn't work. I googled it at 7 AM and didn't see anything on this problem. Now, at 1 PM, this problem is popping up everywhere. There's even a name for it now - Z2K9 (Zune 2009).

Links:
Zune support
30GB Zunes Freeze on Startup
Microsoft Zunes Committing Mass Suicide
Help-frozen zune!!!!
Microsoft's Zune in Worldwide Meltdown
Zune 30s all freezing up at once. Ack! Aliens!
Every 30gb Microsoft Zune In the World Freezes
30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once
Microsoft’s Zune 30 plagued by freeze
Microsoft Zunes Hit By Rash of Lock-Up Bugs

- Presented Creationism series at church
- Visited Virgin Islands
- Started trading stock options (Thanks Johnny)
- Visited Taiwan for grandmom's 90th birthday
- Created a Facebook app
- Presented Truth Project at church
- Went to Hilton Head and Houston
- Kids learned how to ride bikes
- Sarena in public school while AV and Zach are homeschooled
- Assistant coach in Upward basketball
- Paid $4.29 a gallon for gas
- Got laid off from Verisign
- Attended High Tech Prayer Breakfast for first time
- Had to evict my tenant
- Bought an Aspire One
- Found a job with the CDC
- Can almost do 3 ball shower juggling and still working on 4 ball fountain
- Experienced the most tumultous economic crisis in recent history and still is going on

Toyota Forecasts Its First Operating Loss in 71 Years
China cuts rates
Dow drop 59 on Mon
First-ever decline for online holiday sales
Unisys to cut 1,300 jobs
Economy declined 0.5 percent in third quarter
November existing home sales fall by 8.6 percent
Investor who lost $1.4B to Madoff kills himself
Dow down 100 on Tue
Cerberus Caps Withdrawals
November personal spending falls 0.6 percent
Jobless claims surge to 26-year high
Dow up 50 on Wed
Dow up 47 on Fri

Haven Trust Bank shuts down
Dow down 65 on Mon
Siemens agrees to pay $1.3B in bribery settlement
Consumer prices fall by record 1.7%
Goldman Sachs posts $2.1 billion loss
FED drops interest rate to historic low
Dow up 359 on Tues
Morgan Stanley loses $2.37 billion in fiscal 4Q
Ecuador to default on foreign debt
Dow down 99 on Wed
Chrysler, Ford idle factories, GM delays new plant
Mortgage rates fall to 37-year low
Hedge fund graveyard: 693 and counting
Automakers to get $17.4B
Dow down 220 on Thu
Bank of Japan Cuts Rate to 0.1%
Italy bails out Parmesan cheese makers
Dow down 25 on Fri
$1.6B went to bailed-out bank execs

Dow Chemical to cut 5,000 jobs, close 20 plants
Tribune media company bankrupcy
Anheuser-Busch InBev to cut 1,400 US jobs
Dow up 298 on Mon
Sony to cut 16,000 jobs
Canada cuts interest rate 75 bps to 1.50%
Dow down 242 on Tues
Office Depot will close 112 stores
China's exports fall for first time in 7 years
Dow up 70 on Wed
3M lays off 2,300
Retail sales post big drop in November
New unemployment claims reach 26-year high
Bank of America to cut up to 35,000 jobs
KB Toys files for bankruptcy
Americans' debt shrinks - 1st time ever
Dow down 196 on Thur
Retail sales see longest decline in 16 years
Auto bailout dies in Senate
Bernard Madoff arrested for $50 billion Ponzi scheme
Dow up 64 on Fri

October construction spending drops 1.2 percent
Manufacturing index drops to 26-year low
US officially in recession
Bush is sorry the economic crisis is occurring
Dow down 680 on Mon
Dow up 270 on Tues
Private sector loses 250,000 jobs in Nov
Dow up 172 on Wed
AT&T to cut 12,000 jobs
Europeans make big rate cuts
BoE down 100 bps to 2.0%
ECB down 75 bps to 2.50%
Sweden down 175 bps to 2.0%
Dow down 215 on Thu
Employers cut 533K jobs in Nov., most in 34 years
Dow up 259 on Fri

World reserves fell since Aug
U.S. bails out Citi with $20 billion capital, guarantees
Existing home sales sink 3.1 pct in October from September, prices post annual 11 pct drop
Dow up 396 on Mon
Government plans new program to aid credit issuers
GDP shrank 0.5% in Q3
Dow up 36 on Tues
U.S. Plans $800 Billion in Credit Market Lending
October durable goods orders drop by 6.2 percent
China cut interest rate 108 bps
Dow up 247 on Wed
Terrorist attack in Mumbai, India
Whitehead sees slump worse than Depression
Dow up 102 on Fri

G20 meets
Citigroup to cut another 53,000 jobs
Japan in recession
Dow down 223 on Mon
Treasury gives $33.6B in bailout funds
Dow up 151 on Tues
Yang steps down from Yahoo
$4.28 trillion spent so far on financial crisis
Biggest drop in consumer prices since 1947
Dow falls 427 to close below 8000 on Wed
Dow falls 443 on Thu
Dow up 494 on Fri
Federal regulators shut 2 California thrifts

It took me some digging to figure out how to install and set up the ClearCase client for Eclipse. So, I'm putting it here for ease of reference.

1. Install the ClearCase client (the plugin will not work without the client)
2. Create a view
3. Get the ClearCase plugin
4. Unzip the zip file into the Eclipse directory and restart Eclipse
5. Clearcase should be a menu item now
6. Right click on a project and select "Team/Associate with clearcase"
7. Configure settings "Preferences>Team>Clearcase". (I had restart Eclipse for the settings to take effect)

Links:
Instructions

China $586 billion stimulus
DHL cuts 9,500 jobs in US
Government increases AIG bailout to $150 billion
Circuit City files for bankruptcy
Dow down 73 on Mon
AmEx becomes a bank
Dow down 176 on Tues
Paulson says troubled assets will not be purchased
Dow down 411 on Wed
Germany enters recession
Economic group says developed world in recession
Jobless claims hit 25-year high
Dow up 552 on Thu
Eurozone enters first recession
Sun to cut up to 6,000 workers, 18 pct of staff
Freddie loses $25.3B in Q3
Dow down 337 on Fri
Gift cards now backed by FDIC