Category: Computers

  • Christmas/New Year/Simplify

    I got a new camera for Christmas, actually a Sony Handycam, HDR-SR11. I’ve had a couple of Handycams over the years, but not for several long years, and never one like this. The old ones were tape driven, and were problems for me over and over and I tore one apart and gave another one…

  • New Laptop

    I got a new laptop on Monday from Costco. It’s an HP Pavilion tx2513cl — So far I really like it. Thus far the idea of it is wonderful. It’s a tablet pc, so I can use the traditional keyboard and touchpad to navigate the screen, but I can also use my finger directly on…

  • A photo from Flickr that is not mine

    I was looking on Flickr.com yesterday and found a very nice picture that I immediately fell in love with, and that was part of a Set for that person’s Flickr account that has many pictures from the Oze National Park, which is in Japan … ( click “read on …” to see the full post…

  • Sansa e280R to Sansa e280 (Plain Vanilla)

    I have a Sansa e280R (that’s the BestBuy Rhapsody model version of the Sandisk Sansa e200 line of flash based mp3 players.) I used to use a Sansa e260 when they first came out, but it went through the washer by mistake in the autumn of 2007 and didn’t work right once it dried out,…

  • Treo; Mobile Edition; Audible

    We upgraded my cellphone the other day. I am now the proud owner of a Treo 755p. I love it. The last “Palm” I had was a Zire … a plastic white and blue device … which didn’t last too long. I got it as an Audible bundle deal, cheap for subscribing to an Audible…