Romey’s Ramblings

I had meant to post this sooner, but I recently got a new desktop machine at work.  I didn’t have the login for the new machine, so I took it as an opportunity to wipe the hard drive and start off fresh. I wanted to talk a bit about my setup experience and about the [...]

The strangest series of events happened this afternoon. I received an unsolicited call on my cell phone from someone in Comcast sales late in the afternoon, mentioning that they had received an email query regarding comparisons of services.  I told them I made no such email and was confused as to why I would get [...]

I ran a backup of my FlashDrive using Toucan this afternoon, and I love the message it gives in the status window after the backup is completed, something that’s perfect for a stress-filled end of the week:

The countdown is on until closing on the house (39 days!) and all of those pre-move activities need to get in gear.  One of those things is figuring out how our information utilities - TV & Internet.  Currently I’m paying a hefty $150 check to Comcast each month for both digital cable and Internet.  If [...]

While traveling to LA on Thursday, we took a connecting Delta flight from Salt Lake City over to LAX.  On the plane there were these screens in the back of the seats.  A veteran of Frontier and the DirectTV system they have on the plane, this was nothing new.  However the screens activated and I [...]