I get emails offering me unbelievably low prices on top shelf software.   Imagine buying Adobe Photoshop, a $600.00 software application, for only $199.00!   Wow!  Or how about Window 7 Ultimate (regularly $400.00) for only 80.00!  Want MSOffice Professional ?  Why pay $600.00 when you can pay $60.00?! Well, all these email offers  and […]

The FCC and Department of  Justice recently approved the Comcast NBC/Universal merger.  There are conditions. You can read some of  those conditions here. Of note is this passage from the linked report: “The deal requires Comcast to provide “approximately” 2.5 million low income households with high speed Internet for less than $10 a month. To […]

The comic strip at left is a stereotypical gag dealing with computers and the whiz kids who know how to fix ’em.  It’s all in fun. The thing is, folks picture me just like the geeky computer brainiac in the comic.  But, really, I’m not a Linux geek.  Sure, I run Linux, but I’m not […]

After uploading comic strips to this blog for the first two weeks in January, I noticed that I forgot to change the copyright from 2010 to 2011. How many times will we fail to write “2011” and instead, accidentally continue to write “2010” in the days ahead?  Well, it happened to me at the digital […]

As many readers of this blog already know, I love radio!  I listen to the radio in my studio when I’m at my drawing table or in front of my PCLinuxOS computer.  I have an internet radio, so I can dial in stations from all over the country and even around the world. Lately, I’ve […]

“Every time Windows boots up some programs automatically load up at the same time, and many of them are ones that you don’t even know are running in the background. Over a short period this number can increase to 30-40 programs, which is enough to slow even the newest of computers” So goes the pitch […]

Back in 1982, Disney released a groundbreaking movie called Tron.  It was the first time (that I can remember) that a film extensively utilized CGI to bring the story to life. Well, I loved the film.  Here was something that upped the ante when it came to special effects and visuals.  Up to that time, […]

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, […]

Just last week, Microsoft issued its biggest every security fix.  You can read about it here. Microsoft had to specifically address vulnerabilities in it Windows operating system which could allow hackers to take control of your PC. This isn’t good news. From the article linked above, “Microsoft released 16 security patches to address 49 problems in […]

I love to blog. I love writing about things that interest me and, hopefully, readers will find informative and entertaining. My big downfall in all this, though, is neglecting the typing skills I learned in high school. Even though I learned how to type, over the years, I’ve fallen back on the “Hunt and Peck”method […]