I don’t know how I missed this when it happened a few years ago… but you know once it’s solved it’s becoming a movie.

In late summer 2003, Wells walked into an Erie, Pa., bank wearing a bomb attached to his neck by an elaborate, locked metal collar. He was also carrying a gun disguised as a walking cane.

Cornered by police in a nearby parking lot after the robbery, Wells said that armed gunmen had locked the bomb around his neck and sent him into the bank. Police seized a multiple-page note full of instructions that told Wells to move swiftly to a variety of seemingly unrelated spots around the area or the bomb would detonate.

“Why is nobody trying to come get this thing off me?” he yelled to authorities as he sat handcuffed near a police car. “I don’t have enough time.”

He didn’t. With a small crowd gathered that included curious media, the bomb exploded, blowing a hole through Wells’ chest and killing him instantly. He was 46 years old.

Charges imminent in the death of the bank robbing, neck bomb wearing, pizza deliveryman.

If you tire of the many Windows Updates, or ever have to wipe your system and start over, you’ll love AutoPatcher.   Autopatcher downloads as a program onto your computer, then automates the installation of all the Windows Updates that have come out up to the point of it’s latest update (currently June 2007).  It’s available for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista.  You can download it, burn it to CD, and then use it on machines without an internet connection to get them up to date before putting them online.   Saves time, saves bandwidth, and helps keep a machine safe since it’s vulnerable from the moment it gets put online.

Note: You WILL need to install the latest service pack for Windows if it’s not already installed before using this.

What’s AutoPatcher

How many times did you have to leave your computer, after a format, to download the updates you had before it? How many times did you have to go do something else, leaving your friend’s computer download the load of updates with their poor little dial-up modem? How many times have you wished for the updates to be portable from one computer to another and not require but a few mouse clicks to install?

If you’re the “computer guy” of the pack, no doubt the answer to the above questions was “I’ve lost count”! And if you have one or two computers you should consider yourself lucky as well. Think of what would happen if you had to update ten or twenty computers daily!

Is there any way to avoid all this trouble?

Besides the updates one finds on Windows Update (which are not portable), Microsoft also issues special updates (called administrative updates or network install updates), which do not require an Internet connection present during the installation process. The user however will have to answer to a series of (for the most part identical) questions. Even this can be an annoyance since it requires the user’s presence for quite some time.

The solution!

AutoPatcher is based on the functionality of these special updates, automating their installation process. This way, with only a few mouse clicks and two minutes of your time, AutoPatcher is able to continue with the installation of the items you selected. In short, AutoPatcher combines the advantage of both Windows Update (presentation and description of updates and automated installation), and the special administrative updates (portability and installation without the need of an Internet connection).

Download: AutoPatcher