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...

    Isn’t it just amazing how people that are meek as sheep when you look then dead in the eye can, oh so easily, turn into vicious hyenas when they are hidden behind the veil of anonymity that an instant messenger, social website, or even a simple telephone provides?  Working constantly in, what could be termed, a customer service industry almost my entire working career has given me some pretty unique insight into this ever...

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...

What does it really take these days to be an icon of technology?  Seems like now the flashier a gizmo is or the more expensive it is the more “important” it becomes to main stream techies.  Don’t you think?  We seem to have overlooked some of the most humble of devices in favor of more complicated gadgets. Watches, I mean wrist-watches, are oft overlooked and highly useful tools.  I think we have lost sight of how...

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...

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...