I live for my family and friends and I view my free time as precious, but latey it feels like computers are my life.  I  work on them and with them all day long, then I work on them when I come home. Then on the weekends, I go round to my friends homes and work on their computers.      I am a member of the GEEK SQUAD but I get paid in pizza lunches and traded componets.  Don’t get me wrong I LOVE IT!  Just today I got...

     I was just introduced to the most brain stimulating debate I have had in while and I thought I would share it with you.  It is not a new debate, certainly not when you’re dealing with millennia.  Late last night I sat at the old computer gathering info about the last ten years for my end-of-year blog post and I came to the frustrating realization that there is actually a great deal of debate about this subject.  It seems...

    Being a card carrying computer geek means that you are obliged to try most new tech and report to your buddies your impressions.  More  often than not this is not a really fun task.  You install software or upgrade some hardware and usually advise your pals to hold off till things either improve or progress to a usable state.     I am happy to report that this is NOT the case with regards to windows 7.     Having used win7...

     Today someone enlightened me about a super amazing xmas fact!  (thanks Danny)  It seems we have called a few of Old Santa’s Reindeer by at least three different names over time.  I found this so interesting I had to write a blog about it!      The original poem twas’ the night before xmas by Henry Livingston, Jr. (Clement Clarke Moore got credit for the poem, but he probably was not the author.)  refers to...

         Santa Claus has long been a cult idol of mine.  I think we can all really agree that the image of Santa Claus, perhaps even his entire existence, has been a long lurid story that ultimately simplifies down to mass manipulation.      Let me get one thing perfectly clear before I go on. I love the image of Santa. being an artist I love to draw him in all his various incarnations.  Also as an artist It has always...

    I never really took the time to look up the origins of one of my all time favorite fright-fest foods.  I have enjoyed making and eating this tastey treat as long as I can remember.         We should all thank Dan Walker for his efforts in the late 1950′s, for it was this Kraft Foods sales representative that invented the wonder that is the Caramel Apple!  His invention was actuallya kit sold by Kraft using their...