I’ve kept an eye on touch screen laptops ever since ASUS announced one at CES back in January 2009. Since then, a few of them have popped up on sale from familiar manufacturers like HP, Toshiba, and IBM. However, the performance is less than spectacular. The user interface is not intuitive and the touch response [...]
A few months ago, I took the step and started building an HTPC (Home Theater PC) to watch/record TV and access the internet. For years, I used to do this on my desktop PC that was to a 19″ LCD monitor. Now, I have the need to watch TV (and connect on to the Internet) [...]
We went to Arby’s. It was a cool sunny day when we talked about:
Free Arby’s roast burger. I had the bacon cheddar burger, and it was good. We generally liked the roast burgers.
Consistent, Simple, and Repeatable process. Something we should strive and enforce in the work place.
Obama left, or try to be right wing? Or [...]
For a small site like mine, it takes a catastrophe to make me upgrade the server. Today was such a day. I had a problem with the old AMD Athlon CPU fan making a really loud noise. Previously, I had intermittent crashes. This server’s upgrade was long overdue. It now [...]
Have you ever worked in front of an LCD screen and get a bad case of eye strain (feeling dry or red eye), headaches, and sometimes compounded with pain on your arm, wrist, and back? I work with computers all day. I get these symptoms, even though I have a good 20 [...]
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