Books Read: 2019
As I did last year, below is a listing of all the books I read in the previous year, and my thoughts on them. For the first time, all of the books I read last year were in digital form. I began the ye...
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Books Read: 2018
Using my (now aged) Kindle, I do a fair bit of reading. For some reason, whenever I finish a book I put it into a folder on my Kindle named for the current year. These folders exist only on the Kindle...
One Guy's Approach to Being More Healthy
I'm not a doctor. I'm not an expert. I know only what I've been doing and how it's been going for me. I'm not telling anyone what to do or making a recommendation. This is what I've been doing for the...
Back Burner Blogging...
I know it seems like the blog here is dead. It appears Twitter has taken over and I've given up writing longer form articles. It's as though my world has moved from 1400 words, to 140 characters. When...
Getting Better Fuel Efficiency
These days everyone and their mom is posting on the internet about getting better gas mileage. I've read a lot of articles that talk about the topic and they all seem to have a few things in common. T...
Traffic Lights - Time Wasters for All!
I few months ago my route to work changed and now includes about a dozen traffic lights. I used to have to commute 90+ minutes down toward Boston in traffic but since my office has moved I now have th...
Progress Check In
I've been as busy as ever these past few weeks but I have been slowly making progress on all my little projects. Yesterday Apple posted a few 160GB iPod Classics to the refurb site so I scooped one up...
One Laptop Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child project is nothing new in the world of us geeks. What is new is that they will soon be available for purchase in North America during a narrow window in November. If you are n...
iPod Touch, I yearn for you!
Ok, in case you live under a rock take a look at the new stuff out friends at Apple have released. Apple has released a device that I have hoped for since they announced the iPhone itself back in Janu...
The Wheels of Progress
Well, It's been a while hasn't it? Let me wipe the cob webs of the site (and the servers, but thats another post) and mention a couple of things I have in the works. First off, my Thecus N5200 has bee...
HP. Not Perfect, but Trying!
I like HP. They make a good product at a competitive price and most importantly they stand behind what they sell. I'm not going to get into details about my job or our server environment ect ect but I...
Why I choose to not use Dell
It seems that I have in the past spoken about how I'm not a fan of Dell computers. I used to be, who doesn't like a cheap PC? I encouraged my mom to buy one, as well as my sister and both of those mac...
Vacation - Thinking ahead, and thinking back
Well, I have a much needed vacation coming up towards the end of summer and I am already thinking about all of the items I want to make sure I have. It was last years vacation that got me inspired to...
New Year... so new and fresh
What is the point of a New Year celebration? Is it really that big of a deal to change the calendar on the wall? I mean iCal and Outlook don't pop up on January first and scream about the change from...
New db400971999 Blog
I used to be a Drupal user but I have switched (back) to db400971999. Sometimes the easy way is the best way. I had been looking for a good way to integrate my image gallery into my blog and db4009719...