The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!I’ve mentioned several times that we do not, as a general rule, watch current television. Even on those rare occasions when the weather conditions are just right and we are actually able to pick up a strong enough digital signal to make watching the ONE network available in our area without cable or […]

I remember when Compact Disks first came out, one of the things I used to do was copy a newly purchased music CD to cassette tape - back in the day when you could still buy those. I would listen to the cassette copy until I wore it out, then make a new copy from […]

You’ve probably noticed that my blog entries have been going up on a … less than regular schedule. This is due largely to the fact that I really need a new computer. My desktop machine (”Frankenstein”) is set to dual-boot Windows XP and Kubuntu Linux, but I find myself needing Windows almost exclusively these days. […]

The desktop machine I’m using right now has been nicknamed Frankenstein because I built it out of pieces and parts, most of which I bought on ebay, some of which, however, were salvaged from computers that had quit working. It originally had an S3 Verge video card but, when I discovered that video card wouldn’t […]

Here in the middle of nowhere we’ve only been able to pick up two television stations: ABC and PBS. Ever since about two month after “The Big Switch”, however, for some reason other, we have not been able to pick up ABC at all. There was a debate recently about whether we should spend what […]