5 months after making its initial appearance, the Samsung ChromeBox is now appearing for sale online. TigerDirect now has both the Intel Celeron-based model unboxed here, as well as one powered by a Intel Core i5. Some comments on the out-of-box hardware… 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 »

Location: some 10,000 feet above the planet's surface. I am attempting to tap out yet another blog post on the Archos 7 Home Tablet. Amazing that one of the things I wanted in the A7HT was a smaller computing platform to work on; smaller even than a netb… more »

By the way, this is my first blog post from my new Toshiba NB305-410BL netbook. It is my second netbook, my  3rd Toshiba laptop, my 5th instance of a PC running Windows 7, but my first instance of a PC running Windows 7 Starter. This is the 7th blog p… more »

Thanks a lot Apple. With the announcement that Cupertino's holiday product line-up is set, the rest of the computing industry seems content to do the same. Sure; if I peeled the onion back from the consumer level view, I am sure there are dozens of neat… 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 »

Netbooks are boring. I think that if I see another headline announcing the release of another netbook, I am going to vomit. I am not sure how many more variants can be rolled out with the same specs and there be an expectation that anyone will care. Hone… more »

With all of the high tech (and some times high-priced) gear that is in the 'WERKz, a lot of people assume that most of my efforts are supported primarily by the more expensive gear. The truth is, it is a lot of the little items that ensure that these hig… more »

Movie: I Love You, Man Video: Mind of Mencia, Season One, Disc One Album: updating iTunes Inner Rockstar: updating iTunes Karaoke Song: updating iTunes OnLine Game: N/A OffLine Game: N/A System: Main Tower (September 2007 Build) Interesting Lin… more »

Movie: Max Payne Video: Magnum PI, Season One Album: Quiet Now: Dreamsville, Sarah Vaughn Inner Rockstar: Chris Daughtry Karaoke Song: Just Another Day, Jon Secada OnLine Game: Battlefield: Bad Company (PS3) OffLine Game: Need for Speed: Carbon (PS… more »