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Finally Got An iPod Touch

As some of you that I’ve talked over the past few weeks know I recent got myself an iPod Touch. I’ve had it for a few days shy of a month now and have held off on writing my review until the shiny new toy syndrome wore off. For those that don’t know the iPod [...]

Major Snowstorm – What To Do?

It started snowing Wednesday night and didn’t stop until early this morning here in Eldred. What to do when there’s a major snow storm and you cannot get out? I tell you what, change your bedroom around. Yesterday I dove into that. I changed it over to my ‘summer’ configuration, with my bed against the [...]

Back from Florida

I left for Florida the first week in February, spent two weeks there, and have been home for a week now. I’m finally getting back into the groove of things. I had mountains of correspondence piled up along with a good amount of website maintenance that needed to be done. My trip to Florida was [...]

Leno's Prime Time Show Axed

Time magazine’s website is reporting that Jay Leno’s prime time show is being axed in February. This doesn’t come as a surprise there has been talk about the show being canceled since shortly after it debuted this past September. I’m really not surprised at all as a fan of Jay Leno the prime time show [...]

Thanksgiving Was Good

Thanksgiving was nice as usual mom put out an awesome spread. I helped out a little here and there, but she’s the mad scientist behind it all. I had a couple of friends over as they had to work tonight, so we figured to have them over this way they have a Thanksgiving Dinner. You [...]

Happy Thanksgiving…am I back in the saddle?

How ironic is it that I write “I’m back in the saddle.” Blogging wise and then you don’t hear from me for a few weeks again? Typical Big Dan Things have been pretty good here, just normal stuff playing around with different operating systems and geek stuff but not accomplishing much of anything hence my [...]

When will the cell phone companies stop playing games?

..and finally give nationwide unlimited voice and data for a flat fee? If you remember in the late 90′s it was a race to the bottom with land lines, free nights and weekend with $0.10/min then $0.05 a minute then they finally stopped playing games and now pretty much all our local telcos give us [...]

Back in the Saddle

With the turn to cold weather, I’m back to blogging again! Around April-May of this year I decided to take a break from blogging as it was getting quite monotonous, sometimes it’s sort of like talking to yourself. Overall I took a break from pretty much everything all summer except for a few sites I [...]

Bookmarks or Favorites

Whew! I just got done going through my ‘review’ folder of bookmarks in about 2 months I accumulated about 130 of them. Two months later about 25% are no longer relevant to me and so they got deleted. The rest got sorted into folders under my bookmarks drop down. The trouble is I’ve come to [...]

How To Buy A Mac in 11 Easy Steps

How to properly buy a Macintosh computer: Discover that you really like how Apple computers look…Oooh they’re so sleek and shiny. Realize that you have never used anything but Windows and know nothing about Mac or OS X. Sign up at 3 or 4  separate Mac forums and ask Mac enthusiasts if they think a [...]

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