The battery on my phone was dying, so went down to the Verizon store to buy a replacement. Turns out that they don't make my phone anymore and, therefore, do not make the batteries. So it became time to buy a new phone. I generally get the lowest end one since I really just want something that will make phone calls. Last time, the lowest end ( Read more... )

Dear Best Buy ( Read more... )

Basically, since this new job started, I've been looking off and on for the box with my work books in it. Since the move to the new house, we've gathered quite a collection of boxes in the basement. OTOH, I also knew the books were in a paper box, so it should have been fairly easy to locate. But I had looked into all the paper boxes that I ( Read more... )

A year or two ago, we got my lady some new luggage, several pieces of London Fog including a nice rolling duffel bag. More recently, I have decided that I'm tired of being macho and carrying my duffel, so I would pick up one like hers. Unfortunately, according to one of the mall stores, LF has gotten out of the luggage business. I did a small ( Read more... )

Ok, picked up the 60G iPod yesterday. Finished uploading 4700 some mp3s to it last night. Ready to rock. Um, or swing...or whatever you call do to classical ( Read more... )

Since iPods have finally got up to a size where I can put my whole music collection on them, I had decided to go pick up the 30G ones. Would be able to have all my music and still have room for podcasts. Nice for the upcoming increase commute. Went online to confirm prices. Noted that there is also a 60G for only $100 more. Rechecked the size ( Read more... )

Before going to Italy, I decided to pick up SmartTrax to store pictures on. Didn't want to bring my laptop and didn't want to have to buy a bunch of CF cards. Figured with this, I could just do a quick download each evening and reuse the 256M card I had. So, I ordered one from CompUSA. It arrived , looked fine, except it was missing a small ( Read more... )

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Wiki
I am thinking of adding a Wiki to use as a general home knowledge base. Any recommendations?

Digital PhotographyOk, so we have a digital camera. We go on a trip, take pictures, fill up the cards. Next day, time to take more pictures. Admittedly, we weeded out the mediocre ones from the previous day, but we still will need a whole new set ( Read more... )

My padre, a number of years back, gave each of his descendents a gift of Evil Overlord stock. At the end of this past year, said E.O. gave all his minio...um, stockholders a present. And, yes, I took. Dark side points for me.

I now own one of theseI also wanted a laptop. Friend GK had recently bought a refurbished HP laptop for about half of a ( Read more... )