I ran across this animated gif of lightening striking in slow motion on my feed reader this morning: After watching it a few times I had these thoughts: 1) the lightening seems to throw a strike that scatters first 2) then it uses the path of least resistance to put a second more solid strike [...]

I know a couple of you out there can at least follow what I’m wanting to do, so I’m going to put out an APB for a wireless solution I need. I want to build a combination wireless print server and automatic backup drive. I have 1) a wireless-N network 2) a spare laptop with [...]

The other night at book club a neighbor mentioned her son’s computer had died. She was a little aggravated that in the middle of the holiday hubbub a new computer was on the list before Christmas. I sat on my hands through a bit of the conversation and then finally offered that I could take [...]