I post a lot about my computer adventures.  If you are a friend of mine or a regular reader you will find this post pretty standard computer fare. The tenants of Solipsism postulate that MY experiences are the ONLY provable experiences.  When you speak about pain, such as, you cannot really speak accurately about someone else’s pain but only your own.  It also implies that you cannot really ever describe your pain to another...

    So I had another friend ask me what the best solution for large scalable backups would be.  I get this question often and my answer usually is that it’s always dependent on the situation.  One would think that a portable hard drive would be the way to go but lets look at that solution for a moment.      Hard drives by nature are NOT portable.  Yes manufacturers can put them in fancy shock proof containers and call them...

Throughout the course of my life I have met some extremely colorful characters.  I have a large circle of people who I am happy to call friends.  I have a lot of clients that I work for that I don’t really consider friends.  I want to tell you about a couple that fall into the former group. These folks originally joined my group of acquaintances by becoming customers of mine. I was approached to update their existing business...

   I often work on peoples computers. I do it for fun. I do it to make connections with people.  I do it because there is a need.  I lost count long ago of how many friends I have made with this philosophy.  Most of the time I get paid in the end by having improved my friendships or making connections that lead to other paying jobs.  I don’t look at it as work. I look at it as a way to share with folks and get to know...

    I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with a very interesting fellow today.  I won’t put his name out there because folks deserve theirprivacy.  I was introduced to this guy through an old friend originally for a business discussion.  I have had hundreds of these meetings and like sales, many don’t pan out and become reality.  I am always prepared for anything but I was not prepared for what I encountered.    ...

    I became fascinated recently by the realization that we all take for granted the durability of computers now days.  In the early days of computers many parts, for example vacuum tubes, had to be replaced constantly, almost every hour and sometimes more often.  Later on spools of magnetic tape had to be juggled in and out of use, being replaced or reused throughout the day whilst a computer churned away its massive calculations. ...