The Beginning

It's hard to imagine a life anymore without computers. Not that I can't. Put a backpack on me, send me out to west Texas, New Mexico, or Utah, and I am at home. Still, even if I had a little cabin in a canyon or sitting high up on a mountain or butte, I'd more than likely have some kind of computer there. I use a computer to write , to desktop publish, to publish to the web, to make movies, to watch TV and movies, to surf, to send and receive e-mail, to surf the 'Net, to watch TV and movies, to track finances, to do taxes, to fly simulators, and to play games. So, as you can see, I am quite involved with them, like it or not. Most of the time I do like it; sometimes, I don't. I'm the kind of guy who builds his own computers and does his own troubleshooting and, occasionally, troubleshoots for others. I've been involved with computers since about 1986. The first PC I bought was an IBM clone running a 286 and DOS 3.2 or 3.3, I think. My current PC is self-built, an AMD powered Athlon XP 2000+ with 512 MB PC2100 memory, a 60GB Maxtor and an 80GB Seagate hard disk, an ATI All-in-Wonder video card, a Soundblaster 512 soundcard, and a Firewire card, all run by a MSI Ultra 2 motherboard. The PC is configured to boot into either Windows XP Home Edition (default) or Windows 98SE. For peripherals, I have a HP Laserjet 2100 printer with extra memory and a Postscript module, a Deskjet 940C, a Photosmart 7150, an Epson 1660 flatbed scanner, a Visioneer mx scanner, and a seventeen inch Samsung 760V LCD monitor. And that's just my PC!

You see, I got married a little over a year and a half ago. My wife is a Mac person. I had never seen a Mac up close until we got married; and since my wife didn't know a lot about computers, I became the system administrator. To make a long story short , we have become a Mac family over the last year or so. In fact, I do most of my work on the Mac and prefer it over the PC for most things. It's all linked up on a DSL-breathing home network managed with a Belkin 54G router. Like they say...a man and his toys!

What you're going to see here are my thoughts, feelings, and experiences as a PC and Mac owner and someone interested in home and business computing. Since I've become a switcher, much of what you will see here will be drawn from those experiences. I doubt, though, that I'll be able to keep my mouth shut about the PC world, though. So, drop by; and see what's here