Archive for month: April, 2009

Setting Up an Inexpensive Computer

Categories:Design, News, Tech

Recently one of the charities in my community has been offered the opportunity to distribute some desktop computers. The catch is that they have no software included. Here’s my take on how to set them up inexpensively and securely, with some genuinely useful, basic software… For the operating system: Windows can be very expensive to [...]

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Donkey Smarts

Categories:News

I don’t usually spread stories circulating via email, but I like this one so much I feel compelled to share it. One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and [...]

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FaceBook Experiment Over

Categories:News

Enough with the Daily Updates already! The “LifeStream” experiment is over, and there will not be any more Daily Updates, mainly because they obscure the articles that would otherwise appear. If you are really interested in my status, you can see it in the “LifeStream” module on the right side of this blog, or you [...]

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Daily Digest for 2009-04-03

Categories:News

12:36pm Updated status on Facebook. Charles is chatting with his brother.

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Daily Digest for 2009-04-01

Categories:News

9:09am Updated status on Facebook. Charles , sometimes known as "Goji Man".

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