Jim Becher - Surfing the Web

I saw this post on digg and just had to share my thoughts.  America is negative savings.  Wow, this is a shocker.  I mean in a country where the majority of people are in debt.  The average income in Kent county is 51k and the average new car / suv…

It seems i’m not the only one who has had some data loss recently.  I read an article this week about a guy who lost his data while moving and had a list of tools and things he used.  Here is an article from lifehacker on the same topic. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php…

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I just got my laptop back. New hard drive, number four. New motherboard. They (the dell team) think that it is a mother board issue (could be power or connections). If this happens again I’m never going to do dell again. As aways the first thing to do on Vista…

I was researching a bottle of Rum for a friend and realized that I did not know of any other than “The Captain”.  Even though that is my favorite, I did not know of any better brands. In the process I found a few lists of what are reported as…

Here is one of the best freeware lists I have seen in a while. I use a majority of the items on this list.  I would however prefer notepad2 to any other text editor http://www.teknobites.com/2007/09/08/40-free-windows-apps-for-you/

I just read this article http://www.physorg.com/news108449464.html  comcast is turning off people for using too much bandwidth.  I seem to remember the sales pitch to me.  Unlimted bandwidth and some crazy speed (5 MB).  I just remember telling the guy I did not care about the bandwidth since most sites can’t…

The drive in my Dell d820 went dead again on Friday.  Do I have a backup yes.  Is it recent. NO.  Was I backing it up before it died (yes) just like before.  I hooked up the backup disk (an external usb drive) and started the job.  I noticed I…

I use some sites frequently to view site information. http://www.domaintools.com (site information and lookup) http://www.netcraft.com (what is that site running) http://www.builtwith.com (what technology is use on a site)