Comments for Tech Whisperer

Comment on Welcome! by Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:03:35 +0000

Got a question for you. After attempting a restore to factory settings on a toshiba windows 7 laptop, I’ve determined that the hard drive itself is failing. (lots of inpageerrors, lots of I/O 0xc00000e9, repeated crashes and rebooting to load page over and over, etc.) anyways my question is, tech specs give me limited info on the 300-SATA HDD. Don’t know if it’s 5400 or 7200RPMs. The model # on the toshiba is c665d-s5130. If its over $70 then it’s not worth it, but if I can pick it up for cheap then I’d like to make sure I’m getting a compatible HD. Any info you have would be appreciated. Thanks!

Comment on I’m not even supposed to be here today! by Carol Trevor

Carol Trevor — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:05:29 +0000

I have no reason to engage in that particular endeavour else I would forward my experiences. Maybe others who do will send comments~ ?

Comment on Crafting Update by Carol Trevor

Carol Trevor — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:31:40 +0000

Always happy to read the “Tech Whisperer”–

The woven piece is beautiful–herringbone!!!! Shut Dancer outside or in the basement, or yourself in a secure room so you can weave more! Cool bear too, the cat/dog is like some of us confused about it’s identity… Photos of some of the contents of the playroom would probably fascinate, next time–?

Carol

Comment on This is not the post I started to write… by Carol

Carol — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 14:44:36 +0000

Thank you Eva!

Comment on It’s all about the externalities by Gary Walter

Gary Walter — Thu, 24 May 2012 00:14:41 +0000

This is an issue that frustrates me in my free-lance, entrepreneurial friends. They seem to always be late, always underestimate their time, and always over-promise their customers. It is also something we struggle with at home.

For instance, I know it takes me 35 minutes to drive to a common destination – but because it is so close to a 1/2 hour, I tend to round down. But when I thought it through, and realized that it always takes longer to get out of the house than I planned – and there may be other delays, I started to round up to 45 minutes. But even typing this now, I realize, I should just give myself an hour.

Good points Eva!

Comment on Electronic vs. Paper Books by booksyalove

booksyalove — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:01:39 +0000

For me, reading Advance Reader Editions in eFormats is a 50/50 proposition. While I really like NOT having numerous never-for-sale print ARCs to properly dispose of, oftentimes the eFormat ARCs have an expiration date so that if I cannot read it and complete my review before the book's publication date, then I can't review it at all. I understand that publishers want lots of buzz just before release date, but it's that 'long tail' of continued sales as a backlist title that will make their printing and eBook investment worthwhile. Seeing the ARC on my reviewing bookshelf really does help remind me to write up and post its recommendation; when I must log on somewhere to find which titles I have yet to write reviews for, that just goes by the wayside at busier times. When it comes to recreational reading, I still go for dead-tree books since I can pass them on to others to read, don't have to worry about that takeoff & landing stuff or running out of battery life. Once the format wars shake out, I may be persuaded to buy an actual eReading device, but for now I just use the respective software on my computer to read Kindle, Nook, etc books. **Katy M Recommending YA books beyond the bestsellers at http://BooksYALove.blogspot.com Follow me on Twitter @BooksYALove

Comment on Bad Coffee in the Morning by HEARTing

HEARTing — Mon, 21 May 2012 21:45:28 +0000

I can't live without a good, strong Turkish coffee in the morning. well I could, but I don't want to!

Comment on Using QR codes as they are meant to be used by evacatherder

evacatherder — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:23:38 +0000

Alana – Experiences like yours really frustrate me because those that use QR codes well are hurt by those who don't. I suspect you will be less inclined to explore QR codes in the future.

Comment on Using QR codes as they are meant to be used by Alana

Alana — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:47:42 +0000

I bought my first smart phone about 3 weeks ago. i was very interested in exploring QR codes – and, I have to say, it was a major disappointment. One example: I was in a local nursery buying a heirloom tomato plant (i.e. an "old fashioned" variety). I scanned the QR code expecting to find out more about that particular tomato variety.. What I got was a web site giving me general tomato cultivation information. I didn't even see a link on that website to more information about what I was thinking of buying. I already knew how to grow tomatoes – I wanted specific information about that variety. Bottom line, I was frustrated, and did not buy the plant.

Comment on My life as an (unintentional) serial entrepreneur by evacatherder

evacatherder — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:31:58 +0000

Thank you for such a nice complement.