The people in charge of nagging us about testing our home smoke alarms don’t need to nag me. In addition to testing the smoke alarm twice a year when we change the clocks, I conduct frequent unscheduled tests. When we moved into this house, there was a smoke alarm in the hallway outside the doors …
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When hard drives fail, all is not always lost. Sometimes you can recover that data and put it on a working drive. Over the years I’ve seen a lot of Seagate hard drives fail. I haven’t seen the same thing with Western Digital hard drives. I won’t recommend Seagate drives, internal or external, to customers. …
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A good customer recommended me to her sister-in-law because her sister-in-law needed some help finding her way around Windows 7. My customer said, “I live just around the corner. When you’re through there, would you come over and take a look at my computer. I’m having some issues.” No problem. I know better than to …
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One night as I was doing the wash I flipped the light switch for the light in the laundry room. Big flash of light, then darkness. The light fixture in the laundry room is a globe that I have to stand on a ladder to remove before I can change the light bulb. Three things …
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It’s that time of year again. That time of year when we wrestle technology to the ground and live stream our Christmas tree. This year is our 16th year. We were doing this back in the last century, when it was called “webcasting.” Here is our tree. As Eric puts it, “as always, the best …
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