As I shuffled through all my sundry computer components that I have collected over the years I ran into caches of floppy disks in at least three different places.  This made me wonder what I could have been thinking at the time I hid them all away like a large, burley, somewhat pale hamster.  I mean I seem to have bought enough “floppies” to last me a life time.   Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, ahem… I mean,...

Windows XP transitions out of Mainstream Support phase by Donald Melanson, posted Apr 14th 2009 at 1:47PM (engadget) It may only be a footnote in the long history of Windows XP, but Microsoft has confirmed today that, as planned, the venerable OS has finally and officially transitioned from the Mainstream Support phase to the Extended Support phase. This, of course, follows a number of extensions to the Mainstream Support phase which...

Reaching the end of a job interview, a Human Resources Person asked a young engineer who was fresh out of MIT, “What starting salary were you thinking about?” The Engineer said, “In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package.” The interviewer said, “Well, what would you say to a package of 5 weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund...

We have become a whining, lazy, materialistic, narcissistic, belligerent, uncouth society.  That’s really saying a lot but i believe that statement sums up the way the world has turned pretty well.  One of the easiest of these self depreciating habits to correct is materialism.   It is a very sad commentary about our lives when the value of the the things we own dictates how much others like us.  Mad Magazine summed it up with...

I seem to be having an epiphany of sorts lately.  Yes I know I have one of those pretty often. Maybe as I get older I won’t have so many.  Moving on, I work on PCs in just about every way imaginable.  I do hardware repairs on them, upgrades, maintenance of all kinds, as well as installing and configuring many different software packages on them.  My full time job is doing tech support for a software company, a bit of graphic...

It’s pretty cold here right now.  The temp is barely getting out of the 30s, which is not far from normal for this time of year in Tennessee.  I say this just to set the mood for this post.  I am not an outdoorsman.  As a matter of fact my butt rarely ever leaves the narrow confines of my computer desk chair.  That being said, I had a few friends try to extol the wonders of fishing in this fine weather.  YES...