Stumbling Through
I’m taking a scheduled day off from work today. My original plan was to go into NYC and see the new Tolkien exhibit at the Morgan Library. But I started […]
hardware
a few more iPhone XR notes
I’ve had my new iPhone XR for a few weeks now, so I thought I’d post some follow-up notes on it. My last post on it was on New Year’s […]
Yet More Windows 10 Grief
My desktop PC has been running fine since rebuilding it back in November. But today, something happened. I don’t know what exactly. I had left the PC on all day, […]
new Apple gear
I’ve been thinking about buying some new Apple gear lately. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about replacing my iPhone, iPad, and Watch. My old iPhone SE is almost (but not quite) […]
Windows grief, part two
TL;DR: I got through all the steps in my previous post, and now have a semi-functional Windows install. After getting all the data off my desktop PC SSD, I re-mounted […]
Windows grief
The SSD that I installed in my desktop PC a couple of months ago has been working fine. Up until yesterday. I got a random blue screen error yesterday, while […]
SSD upgrade, part two
I finished my SSD upgrade last week. (Here’s part one and part zero of the SSD saga.) The bracket showed up in the mail, so I opened the case up, […]
SSD upgrade, part one
Amazon’s same-day delivery got me my new Crucial MX500 SSD at around 6pm yesterday. It came in minimal packaging: no screws or cables or anything useful, just a 7mm to […]
Finally upgrading to an SSD
I’ve been thinking about replacing the old hard drive in my desktop PC with an SSD for quite some time. I bought the PC in 2016, from Costco. It’s a […]
MacBook Air and WWDC
Here’s one more post on my new MacBook Air and other Apple-related thoughts. When the old MacBook went south, I was initially considering dropping macOS entirely, just getting a new […]