Coopernundrums

Well, this is going to be a silly post.  I was conversing with a good buddy of mine, Jamie, at the office today and we have come up with the greatest idea EVER!.  I just had to write about it because it will revolutionize the entire world ad we want all the credit.  Now, its based on some pretty wild theoretical quantum fundamentals that aren’t all working just yet, but hey you can patent an idea, right? 

    Imagine if you will, online shopping.  We all do it. Even when you pay the exhorbitant price to have an item delivered “next day” that is STILL too slow.  Am I right?  What if, when you ordered an item it simply materialized right next to your computer.  that is, assuming it was a small item.  What a world we would live in.

    So the idea is that every computer comes with one of these small teleporter pads that sits right next to your monitor.  You order something and once its approved >>ZZAP<< there it is! Sitting right next to you~!  We already have all the logistics worked out for larger items also.  Anything bigger than the home teleporter pad gets sent to a community teleporter kiosk.  Every community, small city, whatever, will have one.  You still order your item, but instead of having to drive to the UPS or fed ex hub to get it, instead of having to drive hours to the nearest store you just hop out the door and run down to the community Tele-Shop and input a code that was emailed to you after your online purchase and >>ZZIZZZLE<< there is your item in all its glory!!

    I know this is all wishful thinking.  Hell this may not even be an original idea but it made jamie and I laugh thinking about it and I thought I would share.  Cheers!

  I work with computers and all their various sundry components, parts and accessories all day every day.  Being a PC Jockey makes me quite attuned to the health of all these parts of a whole usually.  Last week I lost a good buddy. My trusty HP 1200 Series Laser-Jet printer passed on.  That little guy and I met some ten years ago when I first got the job I have currently.  He was moved in with me because of space issues elsewhere in the building.  We have shared an office ever since.  He was always there for me, the quick print, the lengthy technical document, all those years of printing and reprinting revisions on installation instructions and email newsletters.  Thick and thin we have been through it all.  Last week i needed to print an invoice for a customer and the little guy let out a horrible death rattle and then with his last breath he screamed in agony as gears stripped and his functions slipped away.

    It really didn’t hit me until this week that he was really gone.  I needed to print out a list of files.  I hit the print button before I thought about it and sat staring sadly at the small grey and white plastic derelict sitting there in his usual place.  He made no sounds and didn’t wink at me with his little green light to let me know the print was on its way.  I had to move him out of our office and into the computer graveyard that is our storage room.  That’s where all the dead printers gadgets, consoles, and hardware goes when they have met their maker.

    The next time you use a piece of trusty hardware don’t take it for granted.  Work like there is no tomorrow and give  the Hardware Heroes the praise and admiration they deserve, because..

…you never know when they might kick the proverbial computer bucket and wont be there to back you up anymore.

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 normally only lasts five years, although most users likely wont notice much of a difference as XP moves into this new, more wistful period of life, as theyll still be getting regular security updates and occasional hotfixes depending on their support plan all the way until April 8th, 2014 — or who knows how much longer if the demand is there.

via ENGADGET