It was a spur of the moment purchase. Damn I hate impulse buying but I have always wanted me one of these fuckers and I got it before it sold out. It’s my first DSLR. Refurbished for $400 but I can’t tell. The shit is wonderful … now, if I can only figure out how …read more.

Well, like many of the S1’s, my pop-up flash is stuck closed and I Don’t want to yank it up and break it. Great. I was going to my company’s Christmas party on the 10th so how the hell am I going to be able to take pictures in the dark? Well, I guess off …read more.

Today, I finally got my Dell Inspiron 2200 laptop and I can’t put it down. At first I was not impressed with its speed but after uninstalling all the Dell junkware and rebooted, it runs like a charm. Feels good to have a laptop again; the last one I had I spilled tea on it …read more.

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.