Mike's Blog

Just ordered a 1TB Samsung Spinpoint from new egg today for $92 – free shipping. My 250 gig Samsung is about half full as it’s configured with Windows 7 and has been running better than it did when it was new, but the price of huge hard drives is way down, so I got while the getting is good. It can only make the computer run better, and give me even more storage capacity. More stuff to back up too – oh well. You gotta back it up right? I’m running three different types of backup as it stands today. Actually 4 if you count gmail. Your email being backed up is just as important as anything right? I have 2 gigs of online backup with mozy.com, 1 160 gig network hard drive, and 1 500 gig external usb hard drive. That ought to hold me . . . for while anyway.

Took this picture of Mom and Dad this morning for their 60th wedding anniversary. The new camera takes excellent pictures, but the gimp helped. Happy Anniversary!

Ma and Pa's 60th Wedding anniversary

Just backed up all my data, formatted the hard drive and installed Windows 7 on my Desktop. Who-weee! It looks and runs better than it ever did. It’s about a year old and came with Vista. Vista and I had issues from the very start. It took several weeks before I figured out the different work-arounds to do the things I needed to do. It never did run well. It was slow with too many quirps to mention, But that’s all over now. Windows 7 saved the day. I was so mad at Windows I was actually cons,idering an iMac. Don’t get me wrong – iMacs are nice computers, but they’re not twice as nice. My Dell cost $600 and an equal iMac would cost $1200. I find that hard to justify. I’m typing this post on a $300 netbook with ubuntu for an operating system. It’s not a macbook, but close to it – at one third the price. Both the netbook and Macbook will be old in a few years. During that time who knows how much I’d spend on proprietary software for the mac. Ubuntu is and always will be free. I like that.

I thought I followed directions accurately, to embed my google calendar into my wordpress blog, but who knows. Maybe the future will unravel something interesting

Welcome to Mike’s Blog. This is my first experience with WordPress, buy hey – everyone’s doin it. I might as well jump on the band wagon and see what I can do with this puppy.