I have moved into a new house. We are working on selling our 1,100 square foot mobile home (which is on rented land), and have purchased a 1,500 square foot double-wide, built on a permanent foundation, on 1.57 acres of land.
We moved in to the new house two weeks ago.
I have an update on my experience with Hewlett Packard and their customer support. I did not want to post anything more about my situation until I had spoken with their “Quality Customer Care”, as I was not sure whether things were going to turn out badly, or if they would make things right for me.
Well, it appears as though they are going to make things right, and I must say I am extremely impressed. All the same, it would have been nice to have them simply throw in an extra hard drive, or some sort of nice peripheral, but I am still overwhelmed by their response to my situation.
Within this blog entry, you will find the correspondence I sent to HP, along with their e-mail responses. I will then tell you about the phone call I received yesterday afternoon.
In a move that, by some, was considered inevitable more than five years ago, Yahoo! has finally announced that its auction site will be closing down. This will only affect the users of the U.S. and Canada Yahoo! Auctions sites, as they are apparently going to be keeping their Asian auction sites open for business. The official quote from the company is as follows: “After careful consideration, we have decided to close down our Yahoo! US and Canada Auction sites to better serve our valued customers through other Yahoo! properties.” The unofficial word on the street is that Yahoo! finally bowed to the overwhelming success of eBay.
The little-used auction site will officially close on June 16, 2007, keeping a skeleton of services available until October 29, 2007.
I finally broke down and bought myself a new computer. After a long, hard road trying to figure out if it was worth it to try to upgrade my old box any further, I finally grew tired of all of the problems I was having. I did a lot of research looking into building myself a new box out of a barebones set up, and finally came to a scary conclusion. I don’t know jack-crap about computers anymore.
As I surfed various sites like NewEgg and TigerDirect, looking at all of the barebones packages they offered, I realized that I really had no idea what I was looking at anymore. I have not kept up at all with processor technology. I know nothing about all of the various types of RAM, or what to look for as far as power supplies, or really anything.
So, I admitted I had a problem, and put my life into the hands of a greater power–the guy at Circuit City that knew infinitely more about computers than I do.
While browsing the Internet, looking for nothing in particular, I found a very interesting article about plastic discoloration. For those of you that have noticed your monitors, computer cases, or even video game consoles turning yellow over time, this is a very good read. For those of you looking to prevent your computer parts from yellowing in the future, this article is invaluable. For those of you simply interested in the science behind plastic discoloration, this article is a fantastic resource.
For anyone interested in the topic at hand, please visit and read the article. It really is a good, informative read.
My father recently ran into an interesting technological predicament, and I’m somewhat curious as to how many other people have run into this sort of issue, and how aware people are of it.
He started a new job, where he’s working in a rather secure environment. Most of the people in his company have to have government clearances, and you’re not allowed to bring any sort of recorders or cameras into the building. However, when shopping for a new cell phone, he came across a small snag in that department.
It’s very difficult, nowadays, to find a cell phone that doesn’t come with a camera built in. Sure, for most of us, this is kind of nice. It means, no matter which phone we pick, we’ll end up with a digital camera. Sure, they don’t take the best quality pictures, but at least it gives us something to snap quick pics with. However, for him, that seemed to present a major problem. He could either pick a really crappy, low-end phone, or he could pick one with a camera built in, which most likely meant he wouldn’t be allowed to bring it into work.
Nintendo is now battling the concerns people have about weak wrist straps on their Wii remotes by issuing new safety warnings. I found the following message in my email inbox this afternoon:
I just took a look at my Analytics Reports for a few of my web sites, and noticed a very interesting trend. Keep in mind that these two sites deal mostly with video games, so we are more likely to have an audience of computer geeks than a lot of other sites, but it is rather interesting to see just how close the race between IE and Firefox is. Just a handful of users make up the difference between the two browsers.
DCEvolution.net browser stats:
DCHelp.net browser stats:
1Up.com has posted a blog entry highlighting the 10 complaints their staff has had about the new Nintendo Wii game console. I have some comments to supplement that article.
Allen (of HTMLCenter) managed to make the frontpage over at Digg for three days in a row, with three different articles. In his latest article he reviews the Digg-effect in terms of traffic, but not solely on CenterNetworks but also on the services he reviewed in his over those three days.
To plug into Allen’s brain, follow this link:
http://www.centernetworks.com/digg-effect-downstream-traffic
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