Month: March 2009

Here we go with another round of “Weird Pics from Wayne’s Camera Phone”.   The Infamous “Floopy Drive” from the last 2 blog posts Nice Fish   This guy is effing hungry!!!   The Tortise & the Hare sculpture from outside the Urbana Free Library. (Ever heard of a pay library? …Me neither) The Home… Continue reading Photo Roundup

…So I tried to send a note off to the folks at Averatec just to let them know that they still suck. I found that they’ve been bought out by some other company called “Trigem”, so I ended up on the Trigem web site, and sent them this little note via their “Contact Us” page:… Continue reading I couldn’t let it end there…

This computer won’t boot… geez, checked the cd-rom… hmm… go into the BIOS… Oh! Here’s the problem- I need a Floopy disk!   Anybody got a floopy disk?   God, this was the worst $1200 I *ever* spent. NEVER EVER EVER buy an off-brand computer. EVER.   Especially Averatec.

I have completed the months-long project of building a Home Theatre/Gaming “Living Room” computer. I will catalogue the parts & total cost, and show you the components I researched for this project. I took my time, shopping around, but ultimately as so often, virtually everything except the Air Mouse, TV, and Video Card were purchased… Continue reading New PC

As you may or may not know, I’m attending (“Auditing”, as it were) a Personal Wealth management Course. This is good knowledge. Every time I think I may know everything I need to know about some aspect of personal finance, or wealth management, I learn more.   If you want to match up your portfolio… Continue reading FIN 232 Notes & Thoughts