HP vs. Epson Paper: Is it just me or is there something wrong here?

HP and Epson Paper

Many years ago I was loyal to the Epson brand. When it came time to get a printer for photos, or even low run plain paper jobs, I would look around at the Epson offerings and select the model that seemed to fit my needs the best – while always looking for a networked solution [...]

Creating a DOS Boot CD for a PC

It has been years since I faced the need to boot a PC without Windows up and running, in order to do some kind of hardware flash, and yesterday I decided to take the plunge. I had several Western Digital WD2002FYPS 2TB hard drives that were giving me fits and the information posted about a [...]

Moving up to WordPress

Maybe I am hallucinating but when I started this blog and made the decision to host it personally I looked at MovableType (MT) and WordPress (WP). MT I was somewhat familiar with from playing with it a bit years ago. I installed it but never used it enough to say it was really up and [...]

What do you do when Mac OS X will not boot?

Well, I learned the hard way twice… I live a largely paperless life, my laptop (a MacBook Pro 17″) has my business world on it, I am a backup freak with Time Machine running along with Retrospect remote (or whatever they call the network service these days), and periodic backups of the backups taken off [...]

A Brief Update

At first I really did not want to get into customizing any of the sidebar items myself. I am not an HTML/CSS wizard by far and hoped to shortcut the whole process by finding someone on www.rentacoder.com to do the (at least what I thought would be a quick job) for me.

Turns out the [...]