It has been a long term. With many classes that have pushed my time to the limits, I found a moment of peace in the maelstrom of life. With Christmas break  extending about three weeks, I’m looking forward to Christmas, New Year’s and spending time with family. I’m going to breath deep, stretch some muscles, and spend a little time enjoying some leisure activities. There’s also the enjoyment of catching up on those ’round the house moments and generally getting things back to center. Finally.

They say, “When you know, you NewEgg.” Well, recently, I had an interesting event with a pending Newegg purchase. I have an HP Media Server which is running out of space. As a network server, the system has four e-SATA drive bays and only one is full. I’m close to filling up that 750GB drive with backups and other goodies and realized I needed another drive for the new year. I check around Newegg, found a very nice drive, added it to my cart but waffled on the purchase… Now, before adding it to my cart, I logged in to Newegg and then nosed around. When the drive was added, the...