I like it when I do my small part to help make some news. Clearly, my recent purchase of a Thinkpad Edge E420 was the one sale that pushed Lenovo over the top to score killer earnings in Q1. Leading the charge to one of its highest earnings reports since… more »

Unbeknown to even me, I have been reconfiguring the network for a long-term run. It is my expectation that the current home network and mobile kit will remain the same until at least summer of next year. I have already detailed my recent dropping of any… more »

After much dorking around with Microsoft in the spring of 2007, when my XBox 360 broke, I replaced it with a 360 Elite. When my first (single Ethernet port) router finally burned out in the summer of 2002, I replaced it with my Siemens Speedstream router… more »

There are some people who just do not get it. Normally, this is not that big a deal because the only people they are capable of hurting is themselves. But in this day of blogging, everyone is a news reporter when it comes to tech, and therefore just abou… more »

After the 8000-series Dell, I graduated to my first Gateway laptop. It was more a matter of convenience rather than a matter of conscious choice. I was in San Diego at the time for a brief, 2 month stint. I had been on the road for 4 months since having… more »

People have asked me this question on more than one occasion. I am currently running 8 laptops. OK; yes, it is excessive. But I rationalize that there is a reason for each one. OK…there’s not. Not in any way more than the fact that I consider myself a se… more »

No, this is not a celebratory high-five article about Obama winning the presidency, though I have no problem with that particular event. Interestingly enough Mama Zeux and I talked a good bit throughout the election. In a conversation since then, she que… more »