Category Archives: gadgets

So, I had to put together a three-page paper on “Letter from Birmingham Jail”, due tomorrow, and hadn’t actually done any work on it. Which is to say, I had a page written on “I Have a Dream”, but it … Continue reading →

OK, so we’ve all heard the cautionary tales about self-replicating machines; the idea being that once our electronic servants reach a certain level of complexity they will be able to build more machines, and it’s pretty much a slippery slope … Continue reading →

Posts are a bit slow recently – the new school term started, so that’s taking a fair bit of time, and I’ve been playing a little bit of Rhapsody and finding deep enjoyment in fighting enemies by summoning pancakes on … Continue reading →

The laptop I upgr… look, for the sake of argument,  I’m going to SAY upgraded… to Vista this last weekend was an Acer Aspire 9300, a laptop which has served me quite well for the last couple of years. The … Continue reading →

So, I took our Denon 2910 DVD player in for service last Sunday because it had stopped playing some – but not all – CDs, and I honestly expected to get it back with a note of “could not reproduce … Continue reading →

There’s a Hole in Our Entertainment Center (Where Our DVD Player Used to Be) isn’t nearly as good of a country song title as the Xbox one, but I’m singing it today anyway. See, a couple of years ago, we … Continue reading →

Windows Update can officially go to hell. When I turned on the EEE for the first time, it had about 2.5GB free on a 4GB disk.  After letting Windows update run free, I’ve got a whopping .5 GB free. When … Continue reading →

Backstory: A little over a week ago – Feb 26 to be precise – I realized that my camera, my beautiful pink camera, was broken.  A little bit.  Well, the “up” button on the keypad wasn’t working, and this is also … Continue reading →

There’s a reason the latest PC in my apartment is named Vanity: I really didn’t need another PC. I certainly didn’t need a small form factor PC. But… I kept seeing references around the net to the Intel BLKD201GLYL motherboard, … Continue reading →