I bought me a Dell notebook yesterday; an Inspiron 2200 for $549 (including shiipping) with a free printer. What I don’t like about Dell is that you can’t go to the store and buy one. I hate waiting for stuff to ship and hate wondering if its going to be dropped in shipment even less. …read more.

I *finally* got Windows XP to install after several hours of waiting and repeating the installation only like a bazillion times.

ARGH! Can it get anymore frustrating? I have restarted the installation twice and actually the second time it went but then it got an error 9 minutes into the finish of setup. At about 33 minutes into the installation it went to a black screen for a long time. I had to keep restarting the …read more.

YAY! I got my 500Mhz CPU I got of Ebay for $8 today in the mail so I ran out to the store and got the RAM to upgrade the Profile; I had to bite the bullet and pay $53 for 256Mb of RAM though. And for the first time ever, I put a computer …read more.

I responded to Gmail’s Lockdown message with this message: I am writing concerning an error message “Lockdown insector 4! Error: Our system indicates unusual usageof your account …” that I am getting when attemptingto view my emails off the Gmail web site. I havelooked up this error but I have not been making any“unusual usage” …read more.

I got this weird message when trying to get my Gmail today: Our system indicates unusual usage of your account. In order to protect Gmail users from potentially harmful use of Gmail, this account has been disabled for up to 24 hours. If you are using any third party software that interacts with your Gmail …read more.

Yesterday I got curious and completely disassembled my Gateway Profile 2 all-in-one PC just to see what was inside it. When contacting Gateway’s web site, it says that the PC cannot be upgraded. When I call Gateway, they want to know the serial number and shit but I’m not going to go through all that. …read more.

IMG_0034 Originally uploaded by Xeke. Here’s a pic of a pink rose I took today in the Rose Garden at Huntington Beach Park.

Sunset on a Pink Flower Originally uploaded by Xeke. This is my first macro of a flower I took at Huntington Beach Park with my Canon S1 IS. I don’t know what flower it is but for now I just gave it a title. If anyone knows what flower this is, please let me know.

Once again … another night and someone else has gotten shot, not only this time did I hear it but also I saw it. Not cool. This is the first time in my life I ever heard someone beg for their life … which wasn’t in the movies. The guy was shot in the chest. …read more.