Nov 03
After winning their first two games, UDub dropped their next six. However, they finally won their third by beating Stanford, 27-9, at the revamped Stanford Stadium.
Sep 12
After defeating lowly Syracuse 42-12 on the road to open the college football season, the Huskies defeated Boise St., 24-10 at home in the 2nd week. That win ended Boise St.’s 14-game winning streak, which was currently the longest in the nation.
Jun 18
Get ready to feast your on eyes on my latest laptop computer. It is an Alienware Area-51m 5550 that was delivered to me in June 2007, about two weeks after I placed the order online at www.alienware.com. If you didn’t know it already, my previous computer was an Alienware Area-51m 766, that I got in August 2004. Get the details in the My Tech Toys section of my website.
The 766 is still working and is a great computer, but I’ve gotten a few more BSOD’s (blue screens of death), in the past few months, which gets annoying after awhile. Most likely, I will re-format the hard drive and re-install Windows XP Pro. Hopefully, this will get rid of the BSOD’s, but if it doesn’t, then errors are most likely hardware-related. In that case, it is a good thing I got the new 5550 laptop, since finding replacement hardware for the 766 is next to impossible. Alienware no longer provides replacement parts and my 3-year warranty expires in one month 🙁 .
Oh well, let’s get to the fun stuff and the “unboxing” of my brand-new Area-51m 5550 laptop. Curtains please…
Jun 05
Here’s a view of the high-rise apartment building (marked with “A”) that I’m located at in Chicago. The picture looks a little grainy because it was a taken about a mile away from the top of the Sears Tower, the tallest building in Chicago and the USA! The building marked “B” is the AON Center, which the 2nd tallest building in Chicago. It is also the 3rd tallest building in the USA, behind the Empire State Building, which is the 2nd tallest. The area marked “C” is the famous Navy Pier on Lake Michigan.
May 30
These are some photos of the Shangri-La Hotel that I stayed in Suzhou during April 2007. This was one of the Horizon Club suites on the 40th floor. Some of the benefits of being on a Horizon Club floor: free high-speed internet connection; complimentary buffet breakfast in the Horizon Club lounge located on the 48th floor; club floor check-in/check-out; free-suit pressing and shoe-shine service; free daily newspaper and fruits, etc.
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