I took my new soldering iron, replacement DC power jack, & small screwdrivers and set off to fix my injured laptop. It took about two hours to completely break down the laptop. It turns out that you have to remove
Injured Laptop
Last week there was a small mishap in our home. This mishap involved my wife, a power cord, and the power jack on our laptop. The end result is that we can no longer plug our laptop in to a
Bring on the Valium
If you should find yourself needing to go in for an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) and the doctor asks if you want Valium (or something of the sort) for the procedure the answer to this question is YES. It is
A Bit More on Website Apps
Feeling a bit manic in my quest for decent website apps of late. I have been looking for a good web form generator. I REALLY don’t want to have to pay someone hosting fees for a form when I am
Google Trends & A Few Other SEO Options
I am definitely a newbie in the SEO realm, but here are a couple of free SEO tools that I have stumble upon in the last few months: Trends from Google: Compare and contrast various keywords with this free utility.
Antikythera Mechanism
Last night, I was listening to All Things Considered on NPR and I caught a story about an ancient Greek device that was recovered about 100 years ago. Upon arriving home, I phonetically keyed this into a search as “antikitherer”
Keep the Aging Printer
As I sit here looking at an HP LaserJet 4000 series printer (in fact this one is a HP LJ 4050N), I find myself thinking that they just don’t make printers like this anymore. These things still sell for about
Thesaurus
A few months ago Thesaurus.com started flagging areas of their website as “premium content” and they began looking for users to pay for services. As I am not a big fan of paying for things that used to be free,
Image Editor
A few years ago I found myself in need of a simple image editing software program. Photoshop would have been far too complex and I really didn’t want to pay a few hundred dollars for the software. I stumbled upon
Day One
It seems like I spend a decent amount of my time searching through blog postings in an attempt to find answers to the varying questions. With this in mind, I choose to add my own thoughts into this collective consciousness.
