Well my repair guy finally showed up (and to his individual credit, he's a perfectly nice guy who was friendly and helpful, no problems there) but not until 12:40-something. After 12:30, I decided to call Sears to complain as I had made very clear that I had responsibilities today and I could not let this thing drag on all afternoon. Two blown time ( Read more... )

As chronicled elsewhere, Chez Ronin has needed a bunch of fixes in recent days.

Repair Story One: On October 22, after being unable to find a reputable washing machine repair service that would actually service MY area or MY machine, I broke down and scheduled a repair from Sears. I had to wait another week but I had an appointment and a ( Read more... )

After following along with mysticalforest 's trials and tribulations with Comcast I shudder to add dealing with them to my list of things to do...but I must ( Read more... )

Friends offered up some helpful troubleshooting tips for the Xbox 360 problem but to no avail. My power source worked fine with the borrowed Xbox but offers nothing to the console it goes with ( Read more... )

Ok friends and techy sorts, if I'm going to get a new laptop, er, notebook computer, what should I get?

What I want:

• a machine that can connect to my home network, even from (gasp) upstairs on the other side of the house
• a machine that can run Firefox, iTunes, and Quickbooks at the same time without choking to death. Double plus bonus points if I ( Read more... )

Today was a crap day. McAfee broke my internet and I spent several hours on the phone with various tech support people who were purportedly trying to help me fix the problem. Of course, because it was ME (anti-technology field intact) things were complicated, technicians were stumped, and eventually I (and half of Pakistan) had to call it a day ( Read more... )

...of my magnetic personality, or whatever it is that fuels my anti-technology aura. The light above my head made a slight cracking sound and a few seconds later went out. No biggie, light bulbs blow out all the time, nothing too weird about that ( Read more... )