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The trip to the Tampa area was pretty uneventful.  Except for being tailgated once by a crazy woman in the mountains and Deb nearly getting sideswiped, the trip went smoothly and exactly as planned.   The weather down here is quite nice, but it is going to take some time getting used to the humidity.  […]

As part of moving down to the Tampa area and setting up a new business, we wanted some new phones.  We wanted a phone that was also a PDA, ran Windows Mobile 5 (as I’m a developer on Windows and I want to play in that new environment using .net) and most importantly, we could be […]

Tomorrow our cable modem is disconnected, so I’m posting this tonight.  On Friday we’re moving to the Tampa Bay area in Florida.  We have decided to hurry up and get down there so we don’t miss another hurricane season!   I’m excited about our new venture (HSI Technologies), and looking forward to getting down there […]

Some background: As we prepare to move to Florida, we are looking to simplify our home theater a bit.  Given how well the Xbox 360 works as a media center extender, we have decided to use it as our main media device in our living room.    Just for fun, we bought some el-cheapo faceplates […]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm   You have got to be kidding me.  They are trying to collect records of every phone call made in the United States, just in the hope of maybe data mining it into finding a terrorist?   I’m not sure that innocent until proven guilty is applicable anymore.   This is almost as scary as the […]

A long time ago, shortly after they first came out, Deb and I purchased a 20" iMac.  We use it around the house, sometimes on my desk, sometimes on hers, and it’s always fun checking out how the other 3% lives.  However, we need to box up the machine for a little while in order […]

I have an HP Photosmart 7760 printer on my desk for the occasional color printout, or the even more occasional photo printout.  Recently, it began printing very slowly.  It was taking 15 minutes or more just to print out a test page.  I spent quite a lot of time trying to troubleshoot this.  I uninstalled […]

It seems that hard drive quality has gone downhill significantly.  I just had a 250 meg WD2500 hard drive fail.  The drive wasn’t even used that much. It was used periodically to create Ghost images, and today, when trying to Ghost my workstation, the drive wouldn’t spin up. I remember that I’d had problems with […]

As many of you have noticed, many web pages have "in line" ads that try to look kind of like links, and are actually advertisements.  Every now and then I notice a particularly stupid in line ad, which I thought was chuckle worthy.  See the attached photo.  I don’t believe it’s actually an eBay ad, […]

Recently, Chevy has started an advertising campaign that features the fact that they have reduced the sticker prices on all of their cars.  For more information, they say, go to Edmunds.com and click on Head 2 Head.   Well, sure, why not.  I like the Edmunds site, so let’s see what’s there.  I go there […]