Wednesday, February 06, 2002

The 2 dot coms I can't live without: NetFlix - rent DVDs by mail -- NO LATE FEES -- $19.95/mo gets you 3 movies at any one time, postage included. PayMyBills - for $12.95/mo, your bills are sent to their processing center in South Dakota.  When the bill arrives, they send you email.  Set up a few auto-payment rules and you'll never have to write a check or lick a stamp again.  NOTE: To all husbands with newly pregnant wives -- if your wife pays the bills -- you need this service.  I'm not trying to be sexist, but hormones wreak havoc on the "organizational" center of the brain. 11:55:59 PM

Save money on your next system... Buy a Mac ??? Item Dell Dimension 8200 iMac CPU Pentium 4 / 2GHz G4 800MHz Memory 256MB RDRAM 256MB SDRAM HardDrive 80GB 60GB Optical DVD-CD RW DVD-CD RW OS Windows XP Professional Mac OS X Crappy Office Software MS Office MS Office Monitor 15" Flat Panel 15" Flat Panel Modem 56K 56K Network 10/100 Ethernet 10/100 Ethernet     Price $2,207 $2,108* Notes To be fair, Dell probably has a faster CPU (comparing apples/oranges in the MHz War), definitely has faster RAM (133 vs. 100 bus, plus RDRAM is 2x faster than SDRAM) To be fair, iMac includes better software, (image, music and movie). * Do yourself a favor -- Save $300 by not buying MS Office. All you need is a good email app and web browser... New Price: $1,799 11:18:24 PM

How can Linux lose to Windows in the server market?  For an identical configuration, Win2000 Server is $1,000 more.  With Linux, you get the added advantage of not having to reboot every few days to fix memory leaks. 10:46:11 PM

My wife is 5 months pregnant with #2.  I'm just now starting to put on my pregnancy weight (just in time to replace the holiday 5 I dropped). 10:22:18 PM

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