Assortments Today

Super Bowl was fun… and avast!

Haven’t updated the blog in a while, and the Super Bowl is as good a topic as any!  So, this was definitely one of the most exciting and action-packed Super Bowls for me in recent history, right up there with and likely exceeding the 2008 Giants-Patriots game.  I was actually rooting for the Colts going into the game, but when the Saints stumbled to a ten-point deficit in the first quarter, I found myself starting to root for the underdog. …

Windows 7

Windows 7 has been released into the wild, and I cannot wait to get my copies. I have an upgrade to Windows 7 Professional making its way through the mail that will be replacing Windows XP Professional on my desktop, and I will be upgrading my laptop to Windows 7 Home Premium (a free upgrade that came with my laptop, and which will happily remove all traces of Vista). Of course, they’ll both be clean installs. I’m so pumped about…

Digital Music Player

I’ve been a holdout on the iRiver ifp-790 for a while now. It’s a durable little guy with 256MB of flash memory, support for a wide variety of audio formats, a built-in microphone, and an FM tuner (which is a requirement for me). But, it’s about 5 years old, and its age has been showing for a while now, particularly in the memory department. With all the hubbub over the new Zune HD and the 5th…

An Update

Haven’t made many substantive updates here for a while. Here are some random ramblings riddled with rigorous reasoning. Or not.

• The other day, I downloaded Security Essentials, Microsoft’s new free antivirus program. Surprisingly, I’m rather impressed with it; it actually detected a virus (!!) that AVG was missing. Needless to say, I’m now using it instead of AVG. There are a ton of really basic user interface enhancements

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Getting Reacquainted with Technology

Updates galore! Sort of.