As part of my need to keep my personal spending reasonable, I like to keep a spread sheet budget. Each paycheck I get a set aside amount of money dumped into a separate bank account that I use for personal spending on hobbies and things like eating out and gas for my car. Part of … [Read more…]
Recently I purchased an SSD for my wife’s Thinkpad. It wasn’t a big one, 256 gig, but her laptop is a little slow all around and the bottleneck seems to be mostly in the drive, which I am pretty sure is still old school spinning platters. Unfortunately, the drive in her laptop is 320 Gb, … [Read more…]
So, I used to be a huge user of Flickr for photos, I would check it daily and comment and join communities and pretty much posted every photo I had taken there. I used to use flicker a lot and look for the best life insurance for all. Over time I sort of fell … [Read more…]
So, right up front I want to say, I’m not trying to sell this as the most amazing machine ever or anything. I mostly just want to give some thoughts and sort of initial impressions. I’ve been previously using an HP 311 Netbook as my laptop. I would argue, at the time, that it definitely … [Read more…]
I’ve recently upgraded my DSLR and have had a bit to play around with it and get a feel for it. I went for an upgrade over my old Pentax K-7 to a Pentax K-3. I already have lenses so I saved money by buying Body Only I like my K-7, it just got worn … [Read more…]
Last post, I talked a bit about my new Multi Monitor set up. I mentioned that I use a program called Synergy to handle using multiple machines with one keyboard and mouse. It’s essentially a virtual KVM, only without the V, since everything has it’s own Video disrt play. It’s not a free program, but … [Read more…]
I just wanted to take a moment to share my new multi monitor set up. Many years ago I was turned on to the idea of using two monitors at my previous job. having the extra desktop space was great and we ended up adding a second monitor to a lot of the desktops in … [Read more…]
I wanted to do some occasional posts on some tools I use for various technical tasks. Partially just to suggest some useful stuff, partially so I have some posts to reference anytime I reference said stuff. I wanted to start off with Netscan and Fing, which serve the same basic purpose on two different platforms. … [Read more…]
So, I mentioned recently, I wanted to migrate off of my shared Hosting to a VPS on Digital Ocean. One reason sited was more control over what I can do with the server. It’s essentially just a cloud based Linux machine, I can do anything I would do on a locally hosted Ubuntu box with … [Read more…]