Note:  I’m filing this blog post on Sunday, December 12, 2010…before the storm hits. Double Note: I recommend installing Linux to an older system in order to try it out.  Find a system that you no longer use.  If you install Linux to your main system you’ll be overwriting Windows’ files and directories. In short, […]

I’m very big into radio. I really love radio. I’ve had a radio of one sort of the other in my studio for years. Radio broadcasts keep me current on news and events and fills in some of the silence with talk and music. I’ve dabbled with shortwave and AM DXing (grabbing distant signals late […]

Last week, I wrote about skimmers and how they can steal your ATM/Debit card information. In this post, I want to give you a very basic, common sense strategy to keep your money as safe as possible. It’s a very simply approach.  And while it can’t keep all your money from being stolen, it can […]

On Saturday, a tree fell (or was being cut down, I’m not really clear on the details) and took out the power lines.  This knocked out my power.  When power was restored at about 5:30 P.M., I was still offline. I wasn’t able to get service restored unitl this morning.  My ISP, Fairpoint Communications, worked […]