So, I have invented a new shot, I’m calling it a skulldragon shot.

• Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey
• Southern Comfort Pepper
• Absolut Peppar Vodka

Edit: 1-15-2012
Last night I was at the bar and they didn’t have any more Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey because they go through it like water, so my bartender suggested Goldschlager as a replacement and let me tell ya, it tasted nearly identical!

It’s taking me a little bit to get used to Windows 7 coming from XP.  I’ve always been one to skip an operating system when they come out.   I had 3.1, skipped 3.11.  I had 95/98 and I skipped ME.  I had XP and I skipped Vista.  After all, who the heck has the money to invest in a new OS when they come out every couple years?   Anyway, it seems like they just jumbled up everything here on 7.  At least on XP it was an easy transition coming from 95/98 and mostly everything was labeled what it was before.  It seems like what they did for 7 was dumb the OS down for the average user.

Overall it’s not a bad computer.  I’m upgrading from a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a 1.8 Sempron processor and 1.5gb ram running XP.

I’d like to give a special thanks to Computer Renaissance and Market Presence.

My Review, Part II – 11-10-11

So now that I have the laptop up and running optimally, (or at least as good as I can get it), I tried to do some recording with it last weekend. After figuring out the confusing task of separating the built in mic from the mic jack, I finally get some sound coming through the system. Here’s the thing though, there’s a half second delay on Windows 7 that makes recording impossible! I checked all the Windows forums and all I saw was the same copy and paste from all the Microsoft reps claiming it to be a driver issue and 98% of the people with the issue still having the problem even after trying the so called “solution”. Looks like I’m going to be busting out my XP laptop to do some recording. Oh well, I was really looking forward to using this 8 gig of ram on some recording!

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Yesterday I was reading some news on my phone about AT&T putting a cap on peoples monthly bandwidth limits and one paragraph really piqued my interest and a bit of nostalgia for me:

One of the major fears is that stifling broadband caps will strangle the online economy, which is the only one even sort of working these days. That’s probably not the case, however: Website designers will have a veritable boom phase as companies scramble to reduce their bandwidth footprint, while the more thorough designers can just straight up retire — all they have to do is comb through their archives and sell companies back their own website code from 1997.

Which in itself is very true, and if it does happen, I definitely have a ton of archives to comb through!  I still remember the good ‘ol days of 56k,  33.6k, and even 14.4k modems where you would be lucky to get 2-5 kbps and it still took forever to download anything, so one would have to build a website accordingly. Remember the splash pages that used to say ‘low bandwidth users click here’ and ‘for the flash intro click here?’  Let’s hope that the rest of the ISP’s don’t follow suit and restrict bandwidth because that would start putting an end to online gaming such as World of Warcraft, video sites such as YouTube, and would create a general disinterest for the internet.  Let’s face it, the average user has no idea what the heck a gigabyte is and no concept on how many megabytes are in one, let alone know how much of their 150gb allowance they are actually going to use.   In addition to that, what about all those wifi hotspots that places such as Starbucks or McDonald’s offer their customers or even personal home wifi connections for a large family where you have a handful of people connected?  There’s really no way to gauge usage on them unless the user has an idea and logs it…  They say the caps will only affect the top 2% of users, but there’s really no way to capitalize off of that and would be only a matter of time until they started capping even more.