A couple of months ago, I ordered a new Western Digital 500GB SATA hard drive from Walmart.com.

I was planning to reinstall Debian Linux on it from scratch, using ext4 partitions, while still keeping my older SATA hard drive, so that I could boot it up and use it until my new Linux setup was completely configured and ready to hit the ground running.

Several days later, [more...]

Regular readers of this Journal know that I became a full-time Linux user (instead of Windows) on my home-office computers back in July of 2006.

In the past 5 years, my Linux computers have all been completely virus, spyware and malware-free, despite the tact that none of them run any antivirus, malware, spyware or firewall software.

In fact, I’ve rarely ever had to do any [more...]

Some people see him as a shrewd and important billionaire businessman.

Others see him as the author of several failed deals that have lost untold millions of dollars — of other people’s money.

Some see him as the host of his own TV show.

Others see him as a [more...]

I had planned for the Verizon phone technician to arrive at his scheduled appointment this morning, between 8:00 AM and noon.

But, a couple of days ago, I got a long distance phone call from someone at Verizon, telling me that they had to reschedule my repair appointment for this afternoon, between noon and 4:00 PM.

That didn’t surprise me at all, since, [more...]

If you’ve been following this story, then you know that my Verizon DSL Internet connection has been dead since last Monday night’s thunderstorm.

And you know that, on Tuesday morning, I contacted Eleanor in Verizon’s Customer Escalations Department, and made an appointment to have a Verizon technician come to my home on Friday (my day off) to fix the problem — again.

And you know that, [more...]

Someone I care about is currently going through some financial and emotional difficulties.

Because someone they should have been able to trust, repeatedly used their ATM card to withdraw money from their bank account without their permission.

And has also been caught creating an online financial account [more...]

Today is my day off, but instead of sleeping in late, I took Max to the vet to get his teeth cleaned.

It’s a good thing that I did that. One of the vet technicians called a little bit ago to say that Max has some lower incisors that are loose and infected, so they wanted my permission to remove them. [more...]

Yesterday, I finally tried out my roller skates for the first time since I moved their wheels forward another 3/16ths of an inch.

I rollerskated the same route that I always skate — every single paved walking path in my nearby county park.

And here’s what I discovered: [more...]