What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
Dear DISH Network: I am writing you to let you know that as a consumer I think Turbo HD is a horrible name. What exactly is turbo about your high definition programming? When I think turbo, I think faster. Does this mean your high definition programming will get to my house faster? Or that I can watch a high definition program in less time than with cable or DIRECTV? Perhaps you are implying that you have more HD selection than your competition. If this is the case, allow me to suggest some better names for your service: Total HD Ultimate… Continue reading...
Being a techie I am obviously a big proponent of online shopping. But I don't just do it because I can. I do it because it is both efficient and economical. Here's a perfect example. Both Best Buy and Circuit City have ads in this week's Sunday paper. Both advertise Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 for $99.99, discounted from the regular price of $149.99. $50 off. Not a bad deal, right? Wrong. A quick search for office home and student 2007 on Amazon.com will show you that it is selling today for $84.99 with free super saver or Amazon… Continue reading...
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The combination of Olympics and technology puzzles me. Michael Phelps won the 2008 Olympic gold medal in the 100m butterfly by 1/100th of a second. Thanks to high precision sensors on the swimming wall that must be touched by each swimmer as he or she finishes an event, it can’t get any closer than that without being a tie. So why is it that in 2008 we still need two guys to stand out in the shot put field that run to the first spot on the ground the ball hits to determine the official distance? If these same two… Continue reading...
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The days that I put an outgoing letter in my mailbox are some of my favorites. Why? Because I get to put the little red flag up to tell the mail carrier to pick up the mail. And when the mail carrier does pick up the mail, he or she puts the little red flag back down. It's not the little red flag that excites me. It's knowing when the mail has been delivered without having to walk down the driveway to the mailbox to check. Call me lazy but I hate wasted trips only to find out the mail… Continue reading...
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My old Internet Service Provider (ISP), Insight Communications was recently bought out (or they merged, I'm not quite sure how it went down) by Comcast. The entire conversion process was actually quite painless. The only real work I had to do was to register for a new comcast.net email address to replace my insightbb.com email address. I didn't even care if I got the same relative email address at Comcast mainly because I never use my ISP's email address. I wish I could say the same for some of my clients. A majority of Noobie's clients use the email address… Continue reading...
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