Author Archives: chris

Weebly or Wobbly

Posted on December 6, 2011 by chris

How can website hosting be free ? Let’s take a gander at “Weebly” which claims to be “free” website hosting. One preliminary point i’d like to make is that anyone can offer free web-hosting. Even I can do that. Just … Continue reading →

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The Problem of the LEFT-SHIFT key

Posted on November 11, 2011 by chris

WT (what the) Bleep is with the LEFT SHIFT key on almost all laptops these days, well at least the ones at Future Shop and Staples, where it is impossible to find a laptop w/ a reasonable LEFT SHIFT like … Continue reading →

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How to Shop for a Top

Posted on November 1, 2011 by chris

Unless you’re hardly going to use the thing, you don’t want to get a small laptop. Anything under 13 inches and you’re going to hurt yourself. Eyes do not like looking at little things for very long, except for maybe … Continue reading →

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How Big is my RAM’s Harddrive ?

Posted on October 16, 2011 by chris

My friend G and I were sipping this marvelous coffee (from Harrods London U.K.) in his fantastic library the other day, leisurely discussing how relating to computers was an art, when I shyly ventured a direct question: “G, what is … Continue reading →

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Once Upon a Bit

Posted on September 16, 2011 by chris

Many years ago before I had developed such a fancy for computers, I was over at my friend G’s house celebrating his birthday. The sight of G’s decadently frosted birthday cake loosened a story which I then recalled to G … Continue reading →

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