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Ligia and I were supposed to arrive in the United States yesterday. Instead, we were [...]
On 7/31, I placed an order for a Dell S2409W 24-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor, a new model from Dell which has a 16:9 display ratio and runs about $350. I needed an external display for my MacBook Pro, because it’s getting cumbersome to edit photos on a 15″ screen.
On 8/21 (three weeks later), [...]
During our last trip to Baltimore, we visited the Baltimore Aquarium and also attended their dolphin show, called “Play!”. The show lives up to its tame name. You will see dolphins at play, and that’s all you’ll see. It lasts about a half hour or so, and it’s geared toward kids — more specifically, kindergarten-age [...]
» Go to this postIn 2003, I bought an HP OfficeJet 7110 all-in-one, a big, boxy monster that did (and still does) printing, scanning, faxing and copying. I’ve barely ever used it to fax, but the feature is there in case I need it. Now I’m using it over our wireless network with an Apple AirPort Express, and it [...]
» Go to this post Updated 5/27/2008: It has now been a month since I wrote this post, and Pepco still HAS NOT fixed the electrical panel. This makes it 7 months, which is simply unacceptable. I am going to write to Chris Van Hollen, our Congressman, to see if he’d like to get involved in the matter.
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I have a cold. I’ve battled it through the weekend. It started to get to me on Friday, and it really hit me on Sunday morning. It’s now Tuesday evening, and while the fevers, sweating and malaise are on their way out, I’ve got a nasty cough, which is only getting worse. The only thing [...]
» Go to this postJust got done with my taxes. Yes! Being a long-time user of TurboTax, I’m naturally concerned with how it fares each year. I’ve been using the online version ever since it came out, and let me tell you, it’s much, much better than it was in 2006, when I had this to say about it. [...]
» Go to this postI’ve been experiencing first-hand the following products and services lately, and I thought you might want to be spared the headaches they’ve given me and my family.
Macy’s furniture delivery service
If you like getting used/opened furniture that might have sat in someone else’s house and then got returned, or if you like waiting entire months to [...]
It looks like the Montgomery Mall Apple Store did not fix our iMac properly the last time we took it in. That’s on top of the 10-day wait it took them to order parts, replace them, and run “extensive” tests…
It’s been working fine for the last month and a half since I got it back. [...]
It was more than two years ago when we first flew on Spirit. We were supposed to leave on an early morning flight, but we arrived at the gate 29 minutes prior to departure. We weren’t allowed to board. At that time, Spirit had a 30-minute policy on their flights, and “anyone not at the [...]
» Go to this postThis is a bit after Thanksgiving, but it’s pertinent.
It was just last summer (in 2006) that I got frustrated with my photography, and decreed that I must improve. Even though I’d been taking photos since 1994, and I had a feel for what looked good, I had no idea what I was doing with the [...]
Almost two weeks ago, on 11/16/07, I upgraded to Leopard, the new version of Mac OS X. In spite of some negative experiences I’d read about, my upgrade went smoothly and I didn’t lose any data. All of my applications worked afterwards. A couple of them, like 3D Home Architect, required Leopard updates to make [...]
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