One last (planned) post on my current computer situation. The New York Times ran a story today about major computer manufacturers offering reduced-cost refurbished computers — from returns shortly after an initital purchase, mainly — and a new electronic environmental rating systems for changes in manufacturing. Plus a note on computer recycling.
This is a good […]
I was reading the Faith of the Free blog, noting its author, Ron Stevens came in “through the Universalist door” and is organizing a church in Summerville, S.C., outside Charleston. (I also noted he was for a time a member at All Souls, Tulsa, where I interned in 1994-95 and was known by some as […]
I swear this is the truth. Tonight, I was about to pull the hard drive, disc drives and the network card for later use, leaving the chassis for recycling. (Don’t throw these away; computers are full of toxic metals.) The RAM was already out — I thought I had fried it with static or something […]
Well, the day after Christmas, my well-loved Ubuntu machine — originally bought as a MS Windows machine — died. Try as I might, I couldn’t even get the BIOS to boot. Perhaps a stray bit of static when I tried to add some memory? Fortunately, I backed up everything but the few days before Christmas, […]
Sometimes, the best ideas come at the last minute.
Does your Christmas Eve services attract worshipers who’ve already tied one on? Perhaps you can give out candy before the service. See at the BBC, “Lollipops to stop noisy revellers” and “Pub lollipops making right noises.” Hat tip to Richard Layman at Rebuilding Place in the Urban […]
I have hundreds, and probably well over a thousand dollars’ worth, of eighteen to twentieth century Universalist imprints slowly gathered over the years. I got each new title as I could — first through specialist book dealers then eBay plus gifts — because they are so hard to come by, and one chance of buying […]
A Unitarian Universalist colleague — I’ll say no more to identify this person — wrote
I listened to the [automatically-generated] Christmas evening service. It’s nice, but the voice is too much for me. But I need advice–I want a good Christmas Eve service, old or new–that will be a kind of high church experience, intimate […]
After years of hearing about “what Jews do for December 25″ from friends, Hubby and I took the plunge last year. Sure, Philocrites has written about the December 24 party scene for Jewish singles, but we’ll leave that to a younger crowd, and enjoy being so, well, domesticated.
Last year, after a breakfast of stollen and […]
For a lot of people, tomorrow will be the last day at work for a week, so it is environmentally important not to use any more electricity when you’re not working than necessary. If you work with a computer — and it isn’t a server or something that has to be up all the time […]
Did it get there? You could go through the UPS or FedEx sites to track your package, or just search for the tracking number through Google, which has a package searching feature. If you have the Firefox browser, there will be Google search bar in the upper right hand corner, and since I do (and […]
