AeroPress make the best coffee in the world

Someone recently turned me on to the AeroPress coffee maker. The AeroPress makes fantastic tasting coffee that supposedly has about 20% of the acid of regular brewed coffee. You can pick one of these gadgets up for about $25 or less, and it’s worth every penny. Just trust me on this, the coffee it makes…

Politicians are full of themselves

All politicians say the same things don’t they? “I’ve always put the people first,” or “I’ll look out for your interests and fight the special interests.” You can go back decades and look at almost any political race and the conversation is the same. The truth is that politicians are simply out for themselves. It’s…

James Baker should be Secretary of State again

I just watched an interview with former Secretary of State James Baker. This guy is so on top of it, I hope he is still being consulted by the current administration. He is above the political frey and has a lot of very practical ideas. He’s not into cheap shots, is very pragmatic, and should…

Album artwork disappearing in iTunes for Windows

My artwork in iTunes for Windows was randomly disappearing. In addition to the artwork disappearing, I had new information appearing in the track info when I played a song. Sometimes it was a new composer, or a new spelling of the same composer. It turns out Windows Media Player is responsible for this. It is…

We will know everything!

Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that in 10 years our cell phones will be 100 times faster than they are today, and we will know everything. Scary!

MacBook Pro Audio Hissing in Sound Card – Fixed?

I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro 15″ 2.6 GHz laptop. It’s the last model before the unibody came out. The other day I noticed a weird electrical hissing noise coming out of the speakers. I searched and searched the Internet and found multiple articles about a hissing noise caused by the dual core processor….

SpinRite 6 really works

I was getting error reports on my PC. I ran chkdsk and found that I had some bad sectors on the disk. I ordered a new drive but then ran across this dos program called SpinRite. I watched a few videos and then paid the $90 for the program. It ran for almost 20 hours,…

DiskWarrior saved the day

I took my MBP to a friend’s house and it started acting weird. It was very sluggish and things kept locking up. When I got home I ran Disk Utility and found that I had all kinds of permissions problems, and a “Sibling Link Error” that could not be repaired. I Googled the error and…

Time Machine backup error solved, for me anyway

I purchased a new Seagate 500 GB FreeAgent USB drive thinking I would simply clone my MacBook Pro’s HD. I’ve done it in the past and it worked like a charm, but this time I thought I’d try Time Machine. I have never been able to get Time Machine to work wirelessly, so I basically…

Brett Favre just doesn’t want to go to training camp

Are you as sick of the Brett Favre stories as I am? He’s at the end of a long career, can no longer do what he used to do, fades towards the end of the season, and yet he’s still a story. The constant retiring and un-retiring is covered in the press as indecisiveness, but…

Gmail contact picture problem

I’ve been having a problem in Gmail where my contact picture was not being saved. It would be there for the session, but if I changed computers or browsers my contact picture would be reset to an old photo that I don’t even remember uploading. Searching for answers yielded nothing but I finally figured something…