December 2007 Archives
It’s been a very quiet year on Vertical Hold. For those that only know me or follow my adventures via this site it must have seemed like 2007 was a year of quiet introspection, or something. Not really.
Movable Type is a good platform for writing. I just don’t do a whole lot of writing these days. I think that I should, but when I take time to sit down and try and say something, the ideas evaporate. I also feel that I have nothing original to add. There are 18 quadtrillion sites out there saying things. I’m sure at least one of them covered what I was going to say.
Maybe 2007 is the year I concede defeat. I am not an information producer, only a consumer.
The year was good for making new friends and strengthening bonds with existing friends. For that, I’m very grateful.
I hope it was a good year for you as well. Here’s to making 2008 even better. /drinks
Here at Pat and Kat central we try to be sustainable. We recycle, although not as thorough as some. We try to keep energy consumption down, although not as much as others. The point is that we try to do the right thing.
The other day our cheap-o Panasonic DVD player stopped working. The power light would blink and that was it. No eject. No nothing. Just blinking. Less than optimal for a DVD player. The good news is that if you google for the model and the problem you find out that you have a blown capacitor. If you, or a good friend, have a soldiering iron, you are about $0.10 away from fixing your DVD player and saving some space in a landfill.
The good news is that our DVD player is fixed. The bad news is that I bet a lot of these relatively easy to fix problems are going unfixed due to the disposable nature of electronics today.
