Sharing My Experiences
I had some time this past weekend to clean up an old computer I no longer use. It was a X79 platform that was replaced by X99. For many months it has just sat there turned off. I did upgrade the old OS (Windows 7 Home) to Windows 10 Home. Recently, I lost my back …
Best Buy dropped the Mac Mini price by $100. Open-box versions got an additional 10% off. So the low-end MGEM2LL/A version was as low as $355. I had a $40 gift card, so I figured why not. I needed an Apple desktop at home anyway to replace a broken one from 2007 MB138LL/A. This Mac …
I got tired of waiting for the Apple Airbuds to become available. On top of that, they are $160. It's no surprise, it is an Apple product and I am looking forward to using the W1 chip for easy hand-off between Apple products. I've been without a bluetooth headset since losing my old LG HBS-730. …
I wanted to share my recent experience with jury duty. As you know, jury duty is an important public service a citizen can provide. I initially had a different point of view whenever I get a summon. But luckily my current employer pays me to go to jury duty and my view has changed. The …
I still have about half of my storage available on my Synology DS1815+ NAS and I'm only using 5 of the 8 bays. But I no longer needed my Synology DS212J. This was using 2x 4TB HGST Coolspin hard drives. I had it configured for a RAID0 to back up data off the DS1815+. I …
Staples recently had Western Digital Elements 2TB on sale for $60. I just got a new 2016 Macbook Pro, I figured I need an external drive for backups (Time Machine) as well as a storage drive. Now $60 for a 2TB portable drive is a very good price. I jumped on it and received it …
Did you know there is an API for not only WordPress but WordPress.com? I guess they are fairly similar except one is used for self-hosted WordPress blogs while the other is used for the blogs hosted by WordPress.com. Recently, I have migrated of self-hosted WordPress and into using WordPress.com as a host provider. Previously I …
