Little Tikes Drawing Art Tracing and Activity Desk with chair – power supply replacement info

This is just going to be a quick post about the power supply that you need for a Little Tikes desk with light and tracing table. These are great little activity tables and you can find them in garage sales and thrift stores all over the place. Often times you find them with a missing …

USB type-A male to USB type-A male cables not available at Radio Shack

I have this drive enclosure that I got from my dad a while back. It’s got a couple jacks to connect it to your computer. You can either connect it via a standard USB Type-A female jack (type-A is regular-ass rectangle USB) , or you can plug in an ethernet cable and connect it to …

Hidden Comcast/Xfinity data restrictions

Let me just quote this to start, it’s from a hidden Comcast FAQ  related to a data usage cap that was not disclosed during any part of the service order/contract process: What will happen if I exceed 250 GB of data usage in a month? The vast majority – more than 99% – of our …

Swissgear Pilot 20 Carry-On case + MacBook Pro 17″

I just wanted to post a quick note on my blog about this because I tried to Google it while I was in the store and couldn’t find an answer. Hopefully this helps someone else out there. A 17″ MacBook Pro…I dunno what you Mac geeks call ’em – the one with the aluminum finish …

Cash is king. Citi fails.

After many, many years as a Citibank credit card customer, I elected to terminate my account today. As has been widely reported, Citibank decided to reward many of its loyal customers with huge rate increases. The real bitch of this is that it wasn’t done as a penalty for cardholders who were late on payments, …

I’m going to sleep like the dead.

The last couple nights I stayed up really late. Last night, I took the last ferry home. I didn’t get home until after 2am. Didn’t get to sleep until around 3:30. Had to get up for a meeting at 9:00 in Seattle, which means I had to be on the 7:20am boat, which means I …