eVGA and Nvidia Video troubles
About two weeks ago I experienced some PC troubles. I came back to my desk to find my PC locked up: the screen had rows or red dashes running over everything else. I power cycled the PC but now those rows…
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Nero StartSmart Essentials
Nero just released a free disc burning program: Nero StartSmart Essentials, based on Nero 9. I’ve used the Nero software that came with my CD and DVD burners over the years and found them easy to use so I thought…
Frugal Grocery Shopping
We’re dealing with two issues at home that have made a realignment in our grocery shopping: a limited budget and a desire to buy only Ontario produced food. I should say up front that organic is not a target: we’re…
False Impression by Jeffrey Archer
Another find at the bargain table was False Impression by Jeffrey Archer. I had read Kane & Abel years ago but hadn’t read any of his other works since: I don’t like to take on new authors blindly and thought…
Free Vertigo comics
Received an email from DC Comics today letting me know issue one of Madame Xanadu was available in PDF format as a free download. I checked it out and it pointed me to a list of free issue one Vertigo…
Preserving the easy way
I’m new to the whole food preservation game: curing and smoking meat has been my main activity in this area. Strawberry season is in full bloom in Ontario and I picked up two flats at our local farmer’s market; twelve…
Batman: Nine Lives by Motter and Lark
Picked up a bunch of DC trades and graphics novels off a Diamond sale last month: items I’d wanted to read but never got around to picking up. One of those is Batman: Nine Lives by Dean Motter and Michael…
Windows System Control Center
You may have stumbled upon the collection of one trick utilities from Sysinternals (now owned by Microsoft) or NirSoft. All kinds of items written to perform specific tasks the authors saw as a need: password recovery, page file defragmentation, etc. …
Buy whole animals and use all parts
Last weekend grade A turkeys were $1 a pound so I bought three fourteen pound birds. I know a deal when I see it and normally only purchase meat when it’s on sale and then I try to get a…