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...

    I am not just a computer geek but I am a geek on many levels. I am a beer geek, a music geek, a high-definition geek, a book geek, and I finally a movie geek. Lately I have been admiring the folks that bring the movies I love to life.   The great Sidney Lumet’s passing  made me realize how these films and the men that made them affected my life. I decided to make a list, not of the world’s most influential directors, but...

   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...

    Watching movies is a hobby of mine. I mean, I don’t just watch them I learn all there is to know about them.  I like to know where the original story came from.  Who’s idea it was.  I like to research why the actors chose to be involved, what the director was thinking and so on and so on.  I live a breath movies.  I started this list as a little research project to see how many of my favorite Sci-fi movies were made...

    I love Theodor Geisel.  His books were a wonderful window into imagination when I was a child.  My boys are too old now for it really but I still very much enjoy reading Dr. Seuss to my friend Jim’s little girl.  I was recently on the hunt for tidbit of info and discovered with a large grin that my hunt and the good Doctor intersected in a rather comical way.     I was looking into the  origins of the word...