Yazan: admin | 12 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Finance, Gadgets and Tech
After much internal debate over the plusses and minuses, I finally decided to break down and purchase and install a new clothes dryer. I did some searching and found a model that not only runs on green energy, but two sources of green energy! It was very inexpensive, and the money spent will pay for [...]
Yazan: admin | 29 September 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Books, Entertainment, Gadgets and Tech
Today I stopped by my local library and checked out a book. The 1980 edition of the ARRL’s Amateur Radio Handbook to be exact. While some of the rules and regs are out of date, the electronics theory and information is just as accurate as it ever was. Since I’m considering winding some coils for [...]
Yazan: admin | 12 July 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Gadgets and Tech, Software
For the most part I am liking Windows 7 pretty well. I like the eye-candy in the interface. The Task Bar layout is starting to grow on me. Microsoft has taken quite a few things and tweaked them just enough to make things nice. So far the only program I’ve tried to run that doesn’t [...]
Yazan: admin | 23 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Creativity, Family, Gadgets and Tech
The Reuseum held an awesome workshop back in April based on Make’s Joule Thief weekend project. There were over a dozen people in there using space on 5 workbenches, plenty of soldering irons, and plenty of knowledge being passed around. It was nice to see a complete range of skill levels there, from people who [...]
Yazan: admin | 16 February 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: Entertainment, Finance, Gadgets and Tech
We’ve filed our taxes and are eagerly awaiting our return so we can apply a majority of it towards our Debt Snowball and take a significant jump towards our goal. We have however decided to take a portion of it and upgrade our TV. We’re currently using a 27″ CRT style that we bought shortly [...]
Yazan: admin | 06 February 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Creativity, Entertainment, Gadgets and Tech, Software
Its almost that time of year again. Boise Code Camp! Always a good time, and a great learning experience. I’ve met many new friends there, and I’ve also run into friends I haven’t seen in a while. This year it falls on Saturday, March 28th, and will be held at Boise State University. This is [...]
Yazan: admin | 03 February 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: Gadgets and Tech, Health & Fitness
There has been quite a bit of press lately about using video games in order to exercise, or at least increase your activity level a little. My family has been jumping on that bandwagon lately. A couple of years back I picked up Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 4 for my original Xbox. Using my Bodybugg [...]
Yazan: admin | 27 January 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Gadgets and Tech, Health & Fitness
I’m a numbers guy. I need to see concrete numbers in writing to be able to make decisions based on them. This applies to our finances (a written budget and debt reduction plan) as well as my weight loss goal. This is where the Bodybugg comes into play. The Bodybugg is the armband the contestants [...]
Yazan: admin | 27 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Entertainment, Gadgets and Tech
I just saw a Lifehacker post stating that the Senate approved a bill to extend the Digital TV transition date from Feb 12 to June 12, and the House is expected to do the same. I wish they would do it and get it over with.
Yazan: admin | 12 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Gadgets and Tech
Sometimes when I contact technical support for a company I am shocked at how poorly the company treats the customer. Part of my job is to provide technical support to other team members, so I feel I have a pretty good grasp on the dos and don’ts of customer service. I fully understand that there [...]