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The cable modem has been acting up all week and Adelphia sent someone out to look at it today. Temperatures are now easily in the 110s during the day and it was already 92 at 9am this morning when the guy arrived. He had to do some things outside for maybe 5 minutes and looked a soaked wreck when he was finished. And this is just the start of his day. A lot of people have to work outdoors for some or all of the day so I just wanted to give a shout out to them, much respect to those who can handle it.

I’ve built quite a few PCs in my time and after every one I say “never again” and yet still I am lured by the promise of a cheap machine in exchange for an hour of construction. But it never is an hour, if the machine starts at all, there will be a problem with memory, or if not, the drivers won’t work with the OS etc etc.

My most recent machine built without problem but I discovered that the motherboard was so cheap that the CPU was running real slow, and this machine was going to be my main video compression platform. So I bought a new mobo but destroyed the CPU trying to get it out. Now I have a new CPU (P4 3.2GHz) in the new mobo and the damn thing doesn’t boot into the BIOS, but isn’t giving any errors.

Next time I’m just buying a G5.

It seems like the right time to do it… the Thunderbirds movie is out, and my mail app for the last 8 years, Eudora, keeps crashing when a message has in-line graphics. Further, it likes to put email from potential customers of the business in the Junk folder without me seeing them. I’ve emailed support but all they can tell me is to put the incoming email addresses in my address book. Well, er, I don’t know who these people are before they email me so how the !@%!@ am I supposed to do that?

I’ve already made the switch from Internet Explorer to Firefox with a fair bit of success, so now I’m going to try the email client, Thunderbird. Initially I’ll just use it for the business email but if it looks like a success then Eudora will be history.

As a huge fan and user of Priceline for hotel bookings I had the idea last night that I should try out the concept on my DVD transfer business. So I spent this morning hacking up some forms and PHP to allow people to name their own price for the transfer work. Pretty simple stuff to do but I don’t know of any competitors that allow the same so I am thinking that, so long as the promotion gets coverage, it could bring in quite a bit of work. I guess we’ll see.

So the previous blog wasn’t real good by anyone’s standards; it had been my intention not to rant, rave or otherwise post real pointless drivel but that’s all I could come up with most of the time. So here we are with a new blogging system, the excellent WordPress, and a new start. This time I’m just going to post any old crap and to hell with it.