For the majority of the time that Holly and I have been married, we’ve enjoyed the luxury of owning a dishwasher.  I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t like having a machine that washed my dirty dishes.  I think that I’ve become spoiled by technology over the years. When we first moved into our house two-and-a-half years ago, we had a dishwasher that worked.  Once.  It passed the home inspection and then it never...

I recently acquired a copy of the newest game in the SimCity franchise, SimCity Societies. I loaded it with no problems and started playing. It’s a great concept but very different from the previous SimCity games. There were problems with the game crashing at random though. After doing a lot of research on the issue, I discovered that there is a memory leak in the game. There are also numerous other bugs that cause the game to crash....

Holly and I have decided that we should set up a webcam. I ordered a Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX last night from Newegg. I’m hoping that it will be here by Monday. Now I need to get some good software… I’m pretty comfortable at a computer but web cams are new to me. I have done some research but I’m not really sure what the best software is. I’m looking for something that has motion sensing capabilities....

I have worked for a lot of companies doing technical support. When I read my Dilbert calendar yesterday, I realized how good I have it where I’m at.  This comic is funny because it’s true. I have worked for companies, MSN and Gateway come to mind, where this is the prevalent attitude. Places like that are really not very fun to work at. I have never understood the purpose of having technical support available to customers...

Yesterday at work somebody discovered that one of our coworkers has his computer configured to open files and applications in Windows with only a single click of the mouse. This led to much mocking of the single click option and its inefficiency. A poll was even sent out by one of those involved in the discussion to see what people prefer. The single-click was soundly defeated and he who uses it was shamed. I thought I’d bring this...