Live from the couch!

The Inspiron is coming along nicely. I used PC Decrapifier to get rid of all the rubbish that came installed with the machine. Surprisingly it went pretty quickly. I laughed at the scare tactics used by Trend Micro to keep you from installing their complete piece of crap program. With that now behind me it’s time to get to the good stuff like Flock, Notepad++ and Office 2003. Just like my other machine I’ve decided to skip over 2007 and keep 2003 since it’s smaller and faster. This machine is nice and fast with programs starting up without delay. I’m going to try and keep this rig as lean as possible. I think I’ll only install Internet and Blogging tools and not clog it down with wild graphics apps, games or random utilities. Well, I am going to install one game … Diablo II. I plan to get some gaming in tomorrow. It’s looking pretty good so far!

Pocket full of Dell

Besides the bike riding I decided to throw caution to the wind and buy some electronics. My going to BestBuy “just to look” turned into a pair of new Dell Inspiron laptops. Yes, a pair. They were on sale! For just over $400 I got a Dual Core 2.16 Ghz machine, 3GB of ram and DVD burner. It’s not some machine that will set your hair on fire or anything crazy like that, but damn, this is 5 times better than the last laptop I bought 5 years ago and it was about 1/4 of the price. Now I just have to remove all that trialware crap and she’ll be good to go!

Hot, pink, fast

Check out the new bike I got this weekend! That guy Craig, he is always selling cool stuff! I took it out this weekend to scuff the tires. Holy crap this thing is fast. It’s not much for climbing (or maybe I’m not), but get this thing on a fairly level piece of road and you can take off. Pretty soon I’ll be chasing down cars. Yes it is that pink, and yes people do whip their heads around to get a closer look. I thnk someone even took a picture of me as I was waiting for traffic. But hey, if it makes sure they see me and keeps them from running my ass over then my plan has worked out perfectly!