What a difference Duo Core and dual monitors make!

December 29th, 2008

What a difference Duo Core and dual monitors make!

My new workspace... As mentioned previously, my HP NC6120 laptop completely died.  It did not power up at all; and I concluded that the motherboard died.  Instead of looking for a new laptop, I decided to build a brand new tower.  I still have my old tower powered with an AMD processor (XP2300 1.7Ghz) and a 64mb AGP GeForce 4 card, a limited 80GB hard drive and 1 GB of RAM; but alas, I needed to spoil myself and build myself since I haven’t used that tower for a long time and have been using my HP laptop. I almost made the decision to pick up an Apple Macbook Pro or an iMac but after studying the specs on it; it becamce apparent that its just too ridiculously overpriced to me for the performance I would obtain.  Instead, I figured for the same budget I would spend on either an iMac... Continue Reading...

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After a 5 month hiatus…

December 10th, 2008

After a 5 month hiatus…

I am back and just don’t know where to start.  There are just too many reasons but I have just too many thoughts bottled up that I need to just jott down and encapsulate.  Here is a quick update on life in general: August 2008 – Purchased my first condo, closed escrow successfully and moved in.  Spent the rest of the month shopping, furnishing and working on small renovation projects.  This one is a worthy write up on its own. September/October 2008 – Nothing extraordinarily exciting except just busy at work as usual.  Convention seasons are typically middle of January to beginning of June, which, people take time off for their children’s graduation and summer vacations begin.  As does the inflow of all the tourists making the hospitality atmosphere a bit different. ... Continue Reading...

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