For the record in my first six games I went 4-1 with one NC. I lost Orleans and decided I’d be better off restarting only to learn Civ V no longer scores abandoned games. I could have perhaps rallied, but I had tried some different and apparently less effective things that game. I could have played more but felt I should write down some of my thoughts and observations and as a life time Side Meier game fan…

Not the sexiest use of my Christmas and Birthday money I know. I could have bought an X-Box or a PS3 or a Blue-Ray player for less. I even splurged for the Best Buy extended warranty…

This week has not been a good one for my various electronic devices on which I rely to keep me entertained, informed, even employed…

I have an old G4 PowerMac Tower, a 400MHz “Sawtooth” model. One of the many selling features was the CPU was on a daughter card. It has served me and my family well since I bought it. I mainly use it to store and play music now, but when I learned it was too slow to run the latest version of OS X I decided to upgrade…

My old G4 Power Mac is being used a lot. It is my mom’s primary computer she uses it for everything. I use it as a backup server, a wireless router, a printer server, and it once again holds my iTunes library. Needless to say as a computer that was released in 1999 it is a bit long in the tooth…