Category Archives: Computers and Internet

With the historic cold and disruption to life and work the Feb 14th snow storms brought to north Texas I did a very little re-organizing to the home office and found my laptop I bought my first week back in … Continue reading →

After settling for 500MB less RAM and 90GB less hard drive space the laptop is back and stable.  Loading Windows, Office, and utilities, as well as updates and such took about what was expected.  The fun part was getting it … Continue reading →

With all the hardware in place it was time to re-install Windows.  I did toy around with the idea of cloning the drive but due to the odd things happening with the laptop I quickly decided to do a fresh … Continue reading →

I am breaking the upgrade of my laptop into 3 separate posts, memory and hard disk, re-imaging, and reloading settings.  As with all things planned for in the real world this project did not go as initially thought.  It all … Continue reading →

Since I was 13 I was fascinated with computers.  Ever since I first saw the Commodore 64 PC I wanted a computer.  Over the years I have had quite a few ranging from desktops, towers, servers, and laptops.  One thing … Continue reading →

China has added a new wrinkle to the internet services blocked here.  Twitter has been down for 2 weeks, and without phone support from China I am unable to tweet (which is of small issue for me at this time).  … Continue reading →

Thanks to the unrest in Xinjiang which has had tens of thousands of ethnic minority Uighurs Muslims demonstrate against their treatment in China, starting from a mob beating to death of 2 Uighurs in Guangdong province over perceived harassment and … Continue reading →

I have finally reached the 150,000 mark in my statistics counter, the page hit counter I added a few months back is just shy of 1,000.  I was hoping to catch it at 150,000 and reset the other but it … Continue reading →