The Last Word

I gave up on the Win 7 upgrade that Amazon sent out groundinstead of  Blue Label. So did Amazon; they sent a replacement even though UPS said it would get here in due time. On Turkey Day, I ordered another copy for Saturday delivery.
This morning, it showed as being prepared for shipment on Amazon’s web [...]

The 3880 came a couple of days ago. I went through the usual Epson shipping tape hunt, and found ‘em all. Setup was simple using the USB port. After my Ethernet problems with the 3800, I figured I’d save the network connection for later.
In loading the ink cartridges into the printer, I had a very [...]

Amazon shipped the Windows 7 Upgrade UPS ground instead of the 2nd day air I specified, so it won’t be here until next week. I will use the time to make friends with my new printer.
I’ve had an Epson 3800 for a couple of years now. I got it when the baryta-coated fiber papers began [...]

I plan to attempt another in-place upgrade from Vista to Windows 7. This one is a real hard case. I have a Falcon Northwest water cooled gaming machine (the way they think of it; I thought of it as a great photo editing machine when I bought it about three years ago). It shipped with [...]

In the mid eighties, I wandered into a dive shop looking for new fins. On the counter was a coffee table book of underwater photographs. The title was Within a Rainbowed Sea, and the photographer was somebody I’d never heard of named Chris Newbert. I picked it up and leafed through it, my jaw dropping [...]

Normally, I don’t upgrade my OS until the new one has been out at least six months. Conventional wisdom in an industrial setting is to wait for Service Pack 1, but I don’t wait that long at home. Nevertheless, I’ve been reading about Windows 7 for a long time now, and I’m intrigued. There’s always [...]