Category Archives: Technology

Texas Bluebonnets and How Twitter Helped Us Find Them

This past weekend my wife and I had our monthly day off from the kids and decided to go look for Bluebonnets which are the Texas state flower. Initially we started to drive north of Austin but were not finding [...]

My First iPhone Amazon Kindle Purchase

Cool! I just made my first iPhone Amazon Kindle purchase. I was in a book store and found a book that I was about to purchase when I thought “it would be realy nice to have this on my iPhone [...]

The Allure of a New Mac Mini

Apple updated their Mac Mini line this week after almost a year of not touching it. The upgrade was not that significant other then the fact that it is now possible to use dual monitors via the Mini DVI and [...]

Trading in the Acer Aspire One for a MacBook

I have traded our Acer Aspire One for a 13″ MacBook.
While looking for a new Product Manager position I am stepping up my side business in Web Design and Development to generate some extra income. I tried using my wife’s [...]

My Apple Keyboard Survived the "Spill Test"

I thought I would energize my aluminum Apple keyboard yesterday by dowsing it with some Red Bull. The keyboard didn’t flinch but I sure did even though there wasn’t any sparks or explosions.
After unplugging it from my computer I [...]

The iMac Has Been Moved Into My Home Office :-)

6 months ago when we moved into our new house we had some cash that we set aside to buy things for the new house. I was able to sneak in money for a new computer and was able [...]

My Mouse is Dying :-(

The weirdest thing just happened to me. I was doing some work and clicked on the first button of my mouse and it did not click. I took a closer look and the button is starting to not push [...]

Acer Apsire One – The Perfect Vacation Computer

As mentioned before my wife and I are down in El Salvador. After a little hesitation  decided to our Aspire One with us. I am glad that I did. Due to where we are you don’t want to carry [...]

On Vacation in El Salvador

Tomorrow morning I am on my way to El Salvador for the first time. It is my wife’s native land and she has been wanting me to see it since before we were married. We will be spending a [...]

Slow Internet Wifi on the MacBook – My Fix

UPDATE 1/25/2010: I still continued to have issues with both my Macbook in various places (Starbucks/home) and my iMac at home. Specifically both Safari and Google Chrome seemed to be extremely slow. In Google Chrome I would notice the message [...]