Client: “In the future, I’d prefer not to pay you to make websites for me. I’ve seen what you do, and I think it’s pretty easy. Can you just teach me how to do your web stuff?” Me: “If you’re really interested, I guess I can teach you the basics of web design, but it’s going to require at least several lessons and it’ll cost $xx for every hour I spend with you. Client: “Damnit, do you have to charge for...

    I am a self professed MP3 snob.  I love music.  Almost all kinds.  I believe that somewhere in my 120 GB collection I have every genre and every style of tunes one can possibly imagine.  I love collecting music.      Recently I had a pretty dramatic hard disk failure and it put my collection in serious jeopardy.  Luckily I have triple redundant backups of ALL my important computer files, music included.      The last few...

    Yeah, I know, I know.  There are hundreds, nay thousands of blog posts or online articles decrying all the things that have become unnecessary in our lifetimes.  I want to put my own spin on these things by making it about me.  These are things that have become obsolete in my lifetime that I will forever remember. The Floppy Disk – Thumb drives and mini external / portable hard drives killed off the sturdy floppy disk.  I...

    Well this is going to be short but I just wanted to rant a bit about how cable companies in general always seem to give you the shaft.  My particular story goes like this.  I bought an HD TV a year ago.  I immediately wanted the DVR to go with it.  Worked out great, all except my bill ended up going up 50 bucks a month.  I was able to eat that for a year but now I need to scale back.     I decided to return the DVR and just...

     I just spent nearly three days troubleshooting and diagnosing a laptop hard drive.  I wish I had at least two of those days back.  Working inside a corporate LAN means that reinstalling the operating system is not as easy as it would be for your home PC.  Let me tell you a sad, sad tale.     I worked all day on Thursday the 15th without so much as a hiccup from my work computer.  I logged and powered off as usual at end of...

        I was thinking today about the things we seem to do during the late spring and early summer months at my house and it ocured to me that people on the whole ignore their PCs during the summer months.  They play outside, they go swimmimg, heck some folks even CLEAN.      It seems to me that at this time of year when the temp is the highest most folks seem to neglect the old computer.  So as the helpful kind of guy I am I...