This piece has been forming for sometime now and I'm going to start by paraphrasing the line from the old "Dragnet" TV show to the effect of "The stories you are about to read are true - names have been changed to protect the guilty ( Read more... )

Just when you least expect it to happen a dog comes along who claims a piece of your heart. I didn't start out looking to acquire a dog but rather ended up involved through helping out my room mate Melissa when she decided that she just had to have a dog. Further, only a Chihuahua would do - to be named after the dog in the movie "Legally Blonde", ( Read more... )

Sometimes when you do computer repair and mostly deal with folks who know the basics about computers it is easy to think that most people should at least be able to identify what the parts one is built up from are. And then there are those who should not get close to a computer without a gaurdian/keeper let alone open the case and try to work on/ ( Read more... )

Been awhile since I've done an update here - the usual reasons, most having to do with working and earning a living as I get closer to retirement. Still a lot of turnover at work with the resulting need to continually train new people on the job - its getting to where we have trainees with 6 to 9 months service having to help train the newer ( Read more... )

Sometime back I wrote about netbooks and how they were morphing into what to all intents and purposes were UMPC class laptop computers. That trend has continued and the small Intel Atom processor equiped laptops have pretty well taken over the market for small ultra portable computers. They are still lacking in some respects - mostly in keyboard ( Read more... )

As anybody who reads much of this journal will know by now, I have a tendency to take in MTF transgender folk who are on hard times as room mates. Sometimes this leads to interesting times and the odd laugh long after the fact. There was once a comedian that said comedy equals tragedy plus time and/or distance. Whoever it was that said it sure had ( Read more... )

Seems that it has been a long while since I posted here - I can only plead a busy schedule/life that if anything gets more hectic day by day. Still working in the same place and still training the parade of new hires who no sooner than they are able to work on their own with some small degree of safety get transferred to other plants/facilities. ( Read more... )

Awhile back, in mid 2007 if memory serves a new class of notebook computer was brought out by ASUS that has come to be known as the "netbook". As originally designed, the netbooks had small 7 to 9 inch screens and reduced size keyboards. They also as a class had very small solid state "hard drives" that in reality were nothing more than flash ( Read more... )

More Dumpster Diving ( Read more... )

It's been quite awhile since I've written or updated here - have been quite busy with work and life in general. One thing that has kept me jumping is my new trainee (shadow) at work. He's quite a handful and brings to mind a new and somewhat awkward puppy - all feet and ears but anxious to please. Now in a puppy this wouldn't necessarily be a bad ( Read more... )