smart computer use?

Before it catches fire? If your computer setup is anything like you probably want it to be, you probably are overloading an outlet or two in your office or computer area.

It seems to happen most around the holidays — the electrical outlet begins putting on extra weight. There are nine strings of lights for the tree, electric candles, a CD player with holiday music and — for some reason — a George Foreman Grill. It seems like just staring at this mess of electrical cords for too long will give it just the extra boost it needs to catch fire.

Granted, this article is more about over-plugging in electronics during the holidays, but it applies to pretty much any situation where lots of electronics and plug-ins are involved.

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I can’t imagine what would set a guy off like this. He probably has anger issues regardless. I’m sure many people have felt this way towards their computer.

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I pretty much am just gonna call myself out here and say that I need to pay more attention to this site. I’m not saying it’s a bad site. I like to add content to it, it will mature. I’m not there yet. I’m realizing that few things are gonna probably need to be attended to.

1. There’s no about page. I’m not sure if I just turned it off or deleted the content. But that’s a problem. I’m sure there’s gotta be at least a couple readers of this site that have dug around trying to find more info about the site, beyond the somewhat daily articles.
2. Categories change every couple of weeks. I’m still not liking the category structure, but I don’t want to change it anymore, and I feel what is there is fine. I also dealt with a bad early site setup decision by including category names in the perma-links, which was a bad idea.
3. Easier way to browse the archives. I need to make it easier to browse posts by title once you hit the archive section of the site.

Either way, I’m already working on improvements. Web sites are interesting digital beasts. I’m posting this here so that some might learn from my mistakes and save themselves some trouble.

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Cats like to chew things. Don’t leave the side of your computer case off if you have cats that like to chew stuff.

From About.com

Wires and Cords

Chewing on these cords poses hazards to your cat, from minor shock to death. Cats primarily chew on cords out of boredom, especially if left alone during the day. Try to provide plenty of “play-alone” toys for your cat or kitten, including wall or door mounted toys they can swat or bat around, cat towers to explore, with attached toys for added interest, even an arrangement of cardboard boxes on the floor to form a tunnel, with holes cut through the sides.

I think my cat chews cords cause it thinks it’s supposed to for some reason.

A dummy computer setup

I think it’d be worthwhile to set up a computer that isn’t even running, just as a decoy for the cats to chew on. Leave the side open, load it up with all kinds of old cables and unused computer gear from the magic closet of old computer gear you forgot about and let them think they are actually ruining something they use, but you aren’t. Stupid cats, hehe.

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I was. I still am in some regards. We all were. We all still are in some regards. We all start somewhere.

Using computers generally results in people learning new things every day. Because of this, people do stupid things when they are in the process of learning. A person can only really laugh, cause stupid computer use is just flat out funny in a lot of cases.

Customer: “I ran Microwave Defrost, but it didn’t help.”
(Referring to Microsoft Defrag.)

Read more here. There are many more funny computer tech support related quotes. Most of these have gotta be from the 90’s. I assume most quotes on the page are from people who really just needed to learn to use a computer for use in the workplace, or other such situations.

Good funny stuff.

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