We purchased a
Compaq Presario B1200 series notebook (specific model was B1293TU) for my wife
in the middle of 2008. We finally bought a replacement laptop in December of
2011 and gave this old one to our daughter. On New Year's Eve of 2012, after
more than 4 years of heavy use, its hard drive finally failed.
We have a PC we use to store
almost all our family's files, our main desktop PC which I simply named
Storage. The last time this was in use was April 10, 2012. That was the day I
came to the conclusion that the hard disk of our Storage PC was
failing.
Enjoying Anime with my Kids
I used to be so obsessed with Anime - back in the day, back before my kids were born, back when it was hot, when it was still on primetime, when all TV stations had schedules filled with them. That was just before the arrival of full time anime cable channels.
I think the last anime I really followed was Bubblegum Crisis 2040 on free TV. Oddly, after the two anime cable channels appeared, I slowly stopped following anime.
Maybe the reason was that it wasn't as rare as before. Maybe because I wasn't as starved or deprived of anime so that my hunger for it diminished. Perhaps it just wasn't as unique and novel as before. Perhaps it had become too common and readily available.
I began to doubt if my passion for it was ever real. I wondered if anime really interested me at all or if the only reason I watched anime was because of how scarce it used to be. I didn't know if I watched anime because I had to take advantage of the opportunity to watch whatever anime was available, no matter if they were good or bad.
I think the last anime I really followed was Bubblegum Crisis 2040 on free TV. Oddly, after the two anime cable channels appeared, I slowly stopped following anime.
Maybe the reason was that it wasn't as rare as before. Maybe because I wasn't as starved or deprived of anime so that my hunger for it diminished. Perhaps it just wasn't as unique and novel as before. Perhaps it had become too common and readily available.
I began to doubt if my passion for it was ever real. I wondered if anime really interested me at all or if the only reason I watched anime was because of how scarce it used to be. I didn't know if I watched anime because I had to take advantage of the opportunity to watch whatever anime was available, no matter if they were good or bad.
Dimensione All-in-One Portable iPod Shuffle and PC Speakers and AM/FM Radio
I was looking for USB powered PC speakers for quite a while since I didn't have any good speakers for my desktop PC. We were just using earphones or headphones instead. For some time, I was eyeing these $4 speakers at CDR-King, but I put off buying them until I was absolutely certain that I really needed them.
With our tough cash flow situation, it wasn't easy to justify spending for USB powered speakers over more urgent expenses, so I decided it could wait until we had enough savings or when I could no longer tolerate using earphones or headphones or going without hearing any sound.
Aside from PC speakers, I was also looking at speakers that my pair of iPod Shuffles could dock with. There are only a few to choose from and they're either small and underpowered (for portability) with low quality sound, or non-portable, or just plain expensive, so I felt that these iPod Shuffle speakers weren't worth my time and money and I could totally live without them.
Imagine my surprise when I found speakers that an iPod Shuffle could dock with. They were the right size while still maintaining portability, could run on batteries, and had good solid quality sound. Plus, it had AM/FM radio, could be used as PC speakers, and was inexpensive. To top it all off, I found out later on that the speakers could be powered via USB.
With our tough cash flow situation, it wasn't easy to justify spending for USB powered speakers over more urgent expenses, so I decided it could wait until we had enough savings or when I could no longer tolerate using earphones or headphones or going without hearing any sound.
Aside from PC speakers, I was also looking at speakers that my pair of iPod Shuffles could dock with. There are only a few to choose from and they're either small and underpowered (for portability) with low quality sound, or non-portable, or just plain expensive, so I felt that these iPod Shuffle speakers weren't worth my time and money and I could totally live without them.
Imagine my surprise when I found speakers that an iPod Shuffle could dock with. They were the right size while still maintaining portability, could run on batteries, and had good solid quality sound. Plus, it had AM/FM radio, could be used as PC speakers, and was inexpensive. To top it all off, I found out later on that the speakers could be powered via USB.
Looking again at TipidPC.com in 2011
I recently made another purchase at TipidPC.com (TPC) and this made me take a look back at my past transaction history. It seems that I haven't been making many deals over the past 6 years. In my first two years of buying and selling through TPC, I received feedback ratings for 44 transactions. On the other hand, for the past 6 years, I've only had 9 deals that were represented by feedbacks. I had no transactions in 2008 but I had 3 deals in 2009.