I’ve been remiss in attending to this, the Blog of Evil. A lot of spare time has been spent at two ends of the technology spectrum lately. On the low end, the weather has been nice and conducive to getting out in the yard to dig around in the dirt in preparation for this season’s gardening. Nothing like having grass stains on your hands and dirt under your fingernails at the end of each day. On the high end, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on hardware and software in preparation for buying a new computer. Part of me would like to buy a bunch of parts and put together a computer from scratch, but I’ve never done it before. I’ve worked on computers a bit but I’m afraid of messing things up if I try to build one from the ground up. (Plus there is so much cat hair floating around the house I worry about creating a computer with a built-in hairball.) Once the new computer is up and running then I’ll re-do the old machine; that’ll be my guinea pig.
It’s hard to know where to start when trying to catch up after being away from this blog for a few days. A lot has been going on: bitterness, DP’s discussion of Tibet and the Olympics, Mets fans boo the Mets. Not to mention your comments, most of which send me off on wild tangents of thought. If I was a more disciplined writer I’d do a better job of responding to your comments.
For now I’m just going to leave a nugget of information I stumbled upon when browsing the Web, 72 Tips for Safer Computing.
Remember what Sgt. Esterhaus said:
“Let’s be careful out there.”
