Bad Economy?

With all the news of our economy being in bad shape most of us have had our minds on our money and how to spend it wisely.
I recently needed to shop around for a water heater for our house and since it's a special sealed combustion type it was going to cost a lot of money.
so as a good little consumer I started checking out the prices of water heaters and prices for installation for the unit on line.
Once I had a fairly good ideal how much money was involved I began to look for a plumber to do the installation.
It turned out to be much harder than i had thought!
You would think with people loosing their jobs and money being tight that customer service would be the one thing that most businesses would try to do better at than any other thing they could do.
Unfortunately I found out this was not the case.
I called about 25 plumbers and even put my job on a web site that connects local people with services and the response I go back?
I got a total of 5 plumbers that responded! FIVE out of all those calls and internet inquires!
Most of the plumbers were a little less than enthusiastic about doing the job.
I was frankly dumbfounded that I could not get anyone to do the job!
I did eventually find someone to do the job and they turned out to be a great plumber but this experience has tainted me for sometime to come.
It seems fairly obvious to me that a lot of these people didn't want to work and i can only hope that the millions of Americans that are out of work will step in to the jobs that some people don't want.
Paul

New Blog

By now you have probably noticed that I have a new blog and you may be asking yourself, what the hell is he doing now?!
The answer is not to complicated I promise.
Simply put I wanted to be able to update my blog from any computer anywhere I'm at and I have really wanted to update much more than I have been doing.
This allows me to do that because it's all "in the cloud" which if you ever heard that term simply means it's web based.
No software is required on my computer except a Internet browser like FireFox, Internet Explorer or any flavor of web browser will work.
There are some small concessions I will have to make, such as the blog is not quite as "pretty" as my last one but I'm hopeful that with time and better content that will mater very little.
So I hope it all works as well as I think it will and I hope all of you will not get tired of me.
Please read and Comment more since there should be a comment link and the bottom of each article!

Technology

Last week I took possession of a new computer.
So what's the big deal?
Well this is no ordinary computer it's an Eee PC and it a small deal.
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An Eee PC is a new breed of laptop computer called a "netbook".
Almost all manufactures, such as dell, hp, Sony etc. make these computers.
Simply put netbooks are mini laptops.
The netbook I bought has a 8.9in screen and weighs under 2lbs.
These small computers are mainly designed to be used for what 80% of the general public uses their laptops for, surfing the Internet, checking e-mail and occasionally some light office work.
Netbooks are perfect for medium to casual use, there extremely portable and very affordable.
I would have bought an Apple netbook but the one small problem with that is they don't make one!
Apple doesn't want to get into the "low end" market.
That's very sad because I think that Apple could do a brilliant netbook just like they did with their mac books!
If you decide to buy a netbook you will be pleasantly surprised at the price.
My net book cost $179.00!
The most expensive netbooks cost around $399 but on average they go for around $200.00 so your not going to have to spend a lot to get one.
I have told you the pros on a netbooks now for the con's.
Netbooks are small by their nature, maybe to small for some people.
Small translates into a small keyboard & small track pad, also there is no DVD drive on the computer but you can plug one into one of the 3 usb ports it has.
Netbooks also usually have very small hard drives and not a lot of memory.
They are full featured computers but just a light duty variety.
Think small car vs a Large one.
The both do the same thing but in different ways.
These tiny notebooks are not for everybody but for a small (sorry) portion of the public, they will fit the bill nicely!