You may say, this is bad advice but I am beginning to think this is a good idea, within reason. In particualr, keep an old computer that bridges the technology gap that you deal with. In my case, I am keeping an old P3 450Mhz computer simply to install my old copy of Windows 98 on for those weird cases that come up that you need an older OS. And those cases do happen!

Today at work we ran into a situation where we needed to hook up an old parallel port Iomega Ditto tape drive to retrieve a some files. 6 months earlier I pulled this Ditto drive out of the trash when I saw what tapes it could read. Thankfully we still have a machine with Windows 95 in the building to hook it up to. I did some searching for Windows NT/2000/XP drivers but guess what, they don’t exist. So lesson learned, keep the stuff if if may come in handy later.

Keep this in reason. I decided a few months ago to finally throw out the 5.25″ floppy drive. But I came to the conclusion after having it for 5 years without ever touching it that it was now safe to let it go.

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Man I really want this drink mixer. I have a $30 Hamilton Beach job that may work for some people but lacks in the indrustrial strength of a commercial grade drink mixer. I worked at a Denny’s long enough to know that a commercial grade mixer will take a block of ice and mix it into frosty consistancy within 2 minutes.

Yea, I want that kind of power at home!

Sur La Table - Waring Brand Drink Mixer

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Last year they released DVD box sets of The A-Team seasons one and two. Well I just found out this year they released seasons three and four! I believe there is one season left and it only had 13 episodes. I sure hope they release it next year.

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I found out about PodProducer this evening in a project I am involved in. Since I do some podcasting I thought I would check it out. So far it is a very light weight podcast producting application and it seems simple. I will get it a real test tomorrow, maybe it will replace Audacity.

PodProducer

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I bought some Hershey’s chocolate sugar free Easter eggs today and let me tell you, it is pretty darn good. I looked on Hershey’s web site but could not find a product description. I did find another online retailer that sells it which I am linking to. Wal-mart had it for $2.88 or something.

Hershey’s Sugar Free Easter Eggs

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