Posted on Wednesday, 21st March 2007 by Patrick Dorwin
Ummm… We can’t supply you with those records… They were, ummm… destroyed, yeah, that’s right, they were destroyed by… Ahhh, a computer error… Yeah, that’s it… That’s our story and we’re sticking to it…
DOT chief’s calendar erased
Entries for ’03-’04 were destroyed by accident, state saysCalendar entries for state Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi and his top assistant have been erased, making it impossible to know where they were for their first two years in office.
The Journal Sentinel recently requested Busalacchi’s calendar going back to January 2003, but the Department of Transportation said his calendars for 2003 and 2004 were accidentally destroyed because of a problem with a computer server. Deputy Secretary Ruben Anthony Jr.’s calendars also are missing for those years.
Busalacchi has said he never talked to now-indicted Kenosha businessman Dennis Troha about tax troubles faced by companies Troha owned at the time. Busalacchi was to meet with Troha on the issue in April 2004, but Busalacchi said Troha – a major contributor to Gov. Jim Doyle – did not show up for the meeting.
Mr. Busalacchi will also give you a great deal on the Hoan Bridge…
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March 21st, 2007 at 6:11 am
Busalacchi’s Calendar and Incompetance?…
This just sticks on my craw, mostly because I’m an email administrator and it insults my intelligence. The Sentinel/Journal today published an article in which they indicate that Frank Busalacchi’s calendar was “accidentally erased”. The Journal Se…
March 21st, 2007 at 9:01 am
The storage media should be siezed immediately. A data recovery expert can determine two things:
1 When was the data acutally deleted? (They can tell if it was 2 years ago or last week)
2. If it can be recovered.
March 21st, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Hey, look what we found:
Busalacchi’s calendar found on Palm Pilot
March 21st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Yes, that’s where official records are kept. That and the cookie jar in his kitchen.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:07 pm
No Mickey…the cookie jar is for his payoff money.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am
(Humor mode on) At least Nixon can claim he was listening to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant” which could explain the 18 minute gap in the Watergate tapes. (How many things in life ARE 18 minutes long?)
But seriously, this has a bit of an odor to it. And how much of the data will be selectively reclaimed from the Pam Pilot? And how much has gone into the “Black Hole”, never to be remembered again?
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:39 am
Is it just me, or is there an irony here?
Just a few days ago, this story ran in Yahoo news:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/4023
The subject? Recovering lost data from erased drives.
And now we have this story out of Madison…….