It sure is pretty. Eye candy isn't what I'm after, though. Performance, rock-solid operation, and interoperability are what I want. The machine is an older Pentium 4 running at 2.4GHz with only 768MB of RAM, and an old GeForce FX 5600 video card (… more »

Yesterday I registered for and downloaded Windows Vista Beta 2. The download reported it would take ten hours, so I started it and went to bed. This morning the download was done, in much less than ten hours. I popped a DVD-R in the burner and let it… more »

News has come around thar a life-long friend of mine has been diagnosed with and is receiving treatment for stage IV melanoma. We grew up just a few blocks apart. I think we each thought the other was the smartest kid we knew. I know he pushed me to t… more »

We're looking to rebuild our falling fence and add a deck to the back yard. The fence is falling down, not some kind of fancy style of fence...and we don't have a deck, instead we're just using the grassy areas in the yard. This is just a reminder for… more »

Our contract was up, and Cingular is planning to phase out the TDMA network, so when we finally got the whole family together we went phone shopping. The wif got a new slide-top phone as she had some concerns about her flip phone use. Her parents (who… more »

Since the normal television season has ended, we've tripped into DVDs for our at-home evening entertainment.I owe a review, or at least mention, on some of the recent rentals; Batman Begins (liked it), and The Weather Man (dark, and slow, but also go… more »

Today I noticed that when I turn on my monitor it greets me with a smile. When the monitor is first turned on it displays a black screen with their formated "SCEPTRE" logo in red in the center of the screen. Then the desktop of the PC appears. I conne… more »