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. ...

    So I compiled a list of some pretty cool KILLER ROBOT HORROR movies I enjoy.  Some are so bad they are good and others are realy great.  Here they are in chronological order.  Enjoy! Demon Seed – 1978 A so-so yarn about a maniacal AI computer name Proteus,  that has strange desires to pass on its intelligence to a human baby.  The computer ends up killing several people and rapes the main character a female scientist to...

   Yes I am a big boy.  I have been large my whole life.  I have never much felt bad about it.  I could blame my parents or the environment or my sedentary lifestyle but all of that is bull really.  I am large because I eat a lot and have a desk job.  I am actually quite lucky that I have  both of those “ailments”.  Yeah I would love to get out and drop some weight by exercising, but that crap is HARD.      Really...

    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...

     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...