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Searching for an accounting system

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Over the last couple years, I’ve massaged my financial management into a very, very effective system that uses GnuCash. I’ve managed to take wide ad...

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Patreon feature request

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m a Patron through Patreon, currently supporting three creators. Recently I put in this feature request with Patreon: Good day, There is a Creator for w...

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Corsair AX860: A retraction

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Last year I wrote a negative review of the Corsair AX860 power supply in which I said that I had two units on me fail in a short period of time: When an 800W po...

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No, you won’t face Federal charges for sharing your Netflix password

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I really wish that people would read an appellate decision along with the applied statutes before making asinine statements. In this instance the decision by th...

Technology

Building a PC isn’t that difficult

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

It’s rather odd how a site named “Motherboard” would write an article called “PC Gaming is Still Way Too Hard“. To quote Total Bis...

Technology

How to screw up your computer

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m not a computer support expert. Or at least I don’t assert that I am. I do have experience with computer support. I was the go-to guy for compute...

Colony West/Technology

Revisiting bottlenecking, or why most don’t use the term correctly

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Previously I wrote a long rant-ish article about the term bottlenecks, particularly with regard to AMD vs Intel. In that article I tried to demonstrate, among o...

Technology

Revisiting still and video cameras

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve said numerous times on this blog that digital cameras and video cameras aren’t going anywhere because of the quality they have over smart phone...

Politics/Technology

When the bell tolls One

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

One common feature of a clock is that it isn’t built into a briefcase or anything resembling one. So in building a clock, the one question that needs to b...

Product and service reviews/Technology

Corsair AX860: Giving up on it

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Note: This review is RETRACTED IN FULL. Read the details here. First let’s talk specifications: I have an AMD FX-8350 overclocked to 4.4GHz with an ASRock...

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