Yup, that’s right I’m a slob. It has been rightly said before than I often wear my dinner. I don’t think I have ever worn a white shirt without some kind of tomoto sauce stain on it, and certainly not more than once. So, that brings me to this post. Many years ago I smartly […]
In an absolutel flurry of new posts (2 in 1 day – whoa!) I wanted to drop in a nugget of wisdom. I have seen a lot of instances where people are trying to remove stickers and sticker residue for a variety of reasons and I am always telling them that they need to use […]
Amazing. Amazing on two fronts. First that I have actually gotten off my bum and decided to make another post, and secondly that I have finally decided to pull the trigger on getting a new laptop. I am one of those guys who likes to talk himself out of making a purchase, even though I […]
That’s how long it took, and that may be overestimating things. I opened the box, pulled out the unit, plugged it in, switched it on and noticed on the top there was a touch sensitive display that said “Link” so I touched it and then poked the bluetooth icon on my phone, paired the device […]
I am no stranger to replacing bad equipment in servers, desktops and laptops, but some laptops don’t make it easy. This was one. A couple years ago I swapped out an aging hdd in an older Dell Inspiron with a new ssd and, boy, the performance improved drastically. Lately, I have been using a new(er) […]
I was on a trip to visit my uncle recently and while there and talking shop (he’s a techie kinda fellow) he started telling me about this old tablet he had that I could have if I could get it fixed. It seems he purchased a tablet years ago, didn’t like it, then the os […]
A few years ago when I was in the market for a new laptop I picked up one of the then wildly popular and cheap Dell Inspiron 1545. There are gobs of these running around now and you can find them cheap if you look (click the pic for links to Amazon). I used this […]
I was an early adopter of voip, initially using Broadvoice, then later inphonex for service, but lately, their service has been problematic. My wife had noticed that after making or receiving a call, the next call she would not be able to hear or talk to the other end of the line. This often required […]
You would think that my lack of posts here lately meant I had simply dropped of the face of the earth, but that isn’t really so. I have just been extremely busy with the day to day problems facing me in RL, including how to squeeze >that< much more work into my overly busy day. […]
I have long held the opinion that you should not skimp on the things that you use professionally and frequently. For instance I often tell my peers to make sure they buy decent computers and not just bargain basement models. For some reason it never occurred to me to apply this reasoning to my posterior. […]