Category Archives: TECHNOLOGY

I have always been a huge fan of instant gratifcation.  Santa Claus and Christmas, with their weeks of anticipation have driven me to the point of ambivalence in my later years; to become a snoop as a child. Firing up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

At least on the hardware end of it all.  I’ve got one computer all built, one halfway there, and am currently fdisking and formatting the new hard drive on the first one.  Then, if all goes well, the system files … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For the past couple of hours I have been watching a series on the Discovery channel of first, wolves, then polar bears, and after that, a lion pack.  Another nature program series.  Well yes, and no.  This one, Wild Discovery, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s been a little while, but back I am to building a computer from scratch.  The barebones kit is unassembled, spread out in parts.  Good parts, a 1.8 gig AMD processor, motherboard capable of up to 3 gigs ram, NVIDEA … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Quiet day today.  Just working in the frameshop listening to the wind winding down.  Grey and green.  Dismal grey and verdant green outside; I see it through the French doors of my barn. Waiting for the UPS man, Dave.  He’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Okay, I’ll learn how to take better pictures eventually (should know, lived in sin with a photographer for six years!) but just because I’m excited about learning something new today–transferring the images from camera to computer–you’re going to have to … Continue reading →

Well, figured it was about time to learn how to use my digital camera, although I had taken some pictures back in April of ’04 when I bought it.  I still don’t know how to use all the settings, but … Continue reading →

Don’t need no stinkin’ degree; learnt more in my backyard. Previous post entered this morning, about seeing the strength in the small things. Last night I put a new power supply into one of the home computers, hoping that was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

…is a computer that isn’t breathing.  Blank and staring black screen, no flickers of light of life, no sounds, unresponsive.  My office computer died sometime after two or three o’clock when I wasn’t around to save it. I suspect it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Send me no e-mail with Via…, Cia…., or any of those discount drugs listed within the message.  Just realized that I may be able to block them in Outlook Express with the Message Rules option.  Those are the only spams … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A bit ago I mentioned that I wished someone would invent a gel-cushion or something that could serve as a cooler for both laptop and lap.  I also posted a question to John Walkenbach on the J-Walk blog, and got … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ask and it shall be given to ye… Just posted yesterday about a method of cooling laps from laptop heat and gaining the bonus of cooling the laptop as well, and guess what I get in today’s e-mail notice from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Modification of machinery:  A quarter-inch balsa wood strip taped to a paper guide on a binder makes the odd-sized pages line up with the punches so that it fits (barely) a ten-slot rather than a sloppy nine-slot plastic binding comb. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A computer vac and a dozen double-ended Q-tips later, I’ve solved the noise problem with the office pc.  Cleaned out both the case and the cpu fans.  I’m just glad it wasn’t hard drive problems.  Geek + housewife = computer … Continue reading → Continue reading →