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Trash to tools.
I had a really good week for general repairs ( Read more... ) -
Dealing with the IRS!
October, 2014, the dreaded letter appeared ( Read more... ) -
Losing skillsets within society.
I recently experienced the worst possible scenario for an experienced programmer -the loss of the source code for a major project ( Read more... ) -
Kindle Fire Demo to Kindle Fire Full Function
My neighbor gave me a Kindle Fire Demo. He had purchased it not realizing that only the demonstration program on it would run ( Read more... ) -
Natural Gas Fires
safewrite pointed out a historically high number of fires and explosions involving natural gas.
As someone who installed and serviced furnaces and boilers, I can give some thoughts on this recent phenomenon.
Counterfeit materials: Pipe unions, couplings, and pipe with even a pinhole leak can cause a massive explosion, especially in a energy efficient "tight ( Read more... ) -
Updating the Main PC. Geek Alert!
There comes a time that every technician looks forwards to - or dreads, depending on the mood - updating the family PC.
New technology, more speed more technology, more storage, and new challenges are waiting for you.
I had a single CPU core AMD 3500 Sempron Based PC with one Gigabyte of Ram, a TNT-64 AGP4x Nvdia based graphics card, and 500 ( Read more... )