Stuff about me.
The U.S. Post office is asking congress to allow them to raise postal rates. They want to increase the price of a first class stamp to 39 cents.
It keeps getting more expensive to pay your bills if you mail them in. Watch Internet bill paying services get more subscribers as well as companies develop ways to pay them directly without have to send in a payment.
We have the evening news cast on right now. They just reported a story about the space shuttle. Tuesday, during the launch, a window cover fell off the shuttle and damaged thermal tiles near the tail.
The local news cast reported that cover was held on by tape and that officials did not yet know why the cover fell off.
Something tells me that it fell off because it was held on by tape!
Microsoft revealed its next video game console today – Xbox 360.
While trying to appeal to video game enthusiasts, Microsoft also designed the product to become an entertainment hub. They hope we’ll be hooking up our stereo and playing our music through it as well.
The new Xbox is scheduled to be released this holiday season, way ahead of the next Playstation. Expect a $300 to $400 price tag.
Sony has been losing the edge on innovation in console games. Xbox may gain some more ground and even turn a profit with this one.
OK, the Tivo is now connected to the home network. Now, we have the ability to program the Tivo from any Internet connection. Say I’m at work and I realize the “A-Team” marathon is on. I can set the Tivo without having to call Honeybun at home. Why? Because I can.
I just spent 2 1/2 hours setting up a wireless connection for my laptop. Instead of just setting up the connection, I thought I’d do a little clean up on the computer as well. Of course that just hosed everything. Another program I updated got corrupted, so I had to reboot about 4 times, and each time took 10 minutes for the computer to come back up.
Aaaaagggghhhh!
Oh well, it is hooked up now – and I’m blogging from bed. Not because I need to, but because I can. Cool huh?
Tomorrow night, round 2 as I hook the TIVO up to the network.
By the way – yes, I have secured the network.
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