So today was the day. All but 2 of my new PC components were to be arriving at my house sometime today. Talk about excitement! OK, I’m a real geek, but honestly – I felt like a kid on the day before Christmas. So I’m at work all day tracking my deliveries(5 separate boxes) via [...]
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WooHoo!!! So this weekend, I got the OK from my beautiful financial advisor to go ahead and order the parts for my new PC. Now, if you have been keeping up, my current PC of almost five years, kicked the bit bucket the day after Thanksgiving. I had been planning for a little over a [...]
Came home last night to see Brian sitting at the bar eating dinner. He had these strange things outlining his eyes.
“Hey, Buddy! Whatcha got there?” I asked.
“They’re glasses,” He replied. For a 8-year-old kid who was just told that he was stuck wearing glasses, he seemed fairly upbeat.
“Can you see better?” I asked.
“Yep”
“Well do you [...]
Hope all of you guys had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was wonderful. We had a delicious Thanksgiving Day lunch served up by my very talented wife. Every year, our Thanksgiving fixins have gotten better and better. Later, we went over to Ruby and LD’s house and had the Coat’s family Thanksgiving Dinner. Again, it was [...]
As an update to my last post, friend, co-worker, and fellow blogger, Philip points out that Walmart seems to have replenished its stock of the wildly popular gPC.
OK, here is my rant for the year. To all of you casual computer users out there who are thinking of buying a new PC for Christmas….
Don’t get one with Vista pre-loaded on it.
Seriously.
If all you plan to do is check email, do some web-surfing, and some light office work then Walmart’s $200 Gpc is [...]
Ars Technica has posted an opinion/follow-up to the Dell-Consumerist saga entitled, “Dell apologizes for overreaction to sensitive sales tips.”
In the article, there is a link to Dell’s corporate blog where they have published an apology of sorts.
I should be saving this link for Friday, but I know Terry might find this interesting… Digital Camera HQ [...]
