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<description><![CDATA[<p>BZ’s Druid cowl and analog sword My wife and I have a pact. She stays away from plants, because she has what some call the proverbial Black Thumb. Most plants she touches die. I handle the plants at the homes. … <a href="https://bloviatingzeppelin.net/a-brief-tech-update/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em><strong>BZ’s Druid cowl and analog sword</strong></em></span></p>
<p>My wife and I have a pact.</p>
<p>She stays away from plants, because she has what some call the proverbial Black Thumb. Most plants she touches die. I handle the plants at the homes.</p>
<p>Conversely, I am the family <strong>D</strong>ruid, the <strong>L</strong>uddite. I am as tech-savvy as a pair of worn socks in your dresser drawer. I stay away from the technology and let her handle the bulk of it.</p>
<p>Recently, for example — on <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, which powers <em>this</em> blog — I uploaded one single, solitary plugin. I’ve loaded plugins before on WordPress but <em>this</em> plugin somehow crashed my <em>entire</em> blog about two weeks ago. I couldn’t even access the dashboard in order to discover which plugin was responsible.</p>
<p>Luckily, my tech guru is Robert, who is the I.T. expert for the blog consortium of myself, <a href="texasfred.net">Texas Fred</a>, <a href="http://americanandproud.net/">American & Proud</a>, <a href="http://www.texasbrady.com/">The Right Handed Cowboy</a> and <a href="http://www.cartter.net/">The O Word</a>.</p>
<p>Robert was able to suss out the problem, un-crash everything, and bring my blog back up. God bless him. But absent his intervention, my digital world would have remained shattered.</p>
<p>That said, I’ve had — like most all of you, I suspect — damned near thousands of computers to date. And today I updated the one at my wife’s house in Ghetto Centrale.</p>
<p>Right now I’m typing my last post, for a while, on my Sony Vaio 15″ laptop. It’s been a great machine, not a hiccup to it, <em>ever</em>, with a great keyboard. I really like its keyboard, illuminated as it is in white, with a crisp strike, and very responsive. But it’s no Toshiba all-in-one, like the 25″ screen I have at the cabin in the Sierra Nevadas. It’s a remarkably sharp touchscreen with no cables or wires or confusion. It has a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. I, however, dislike touching screens because I have to reach. And you have to clean the screen.</p>
<p><a href="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Samsung-dp700a3d-a01us.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9696" alt="Samsung-dp700a3d-a01us" src="http://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Samsung-dp700a3d-a01us.jpg" width="1500" height="1000" srcset="https://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Samsung-dp700a3d-a01us.jpg 1500w, https://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Samsung-dp700a3d-a01us-300x200.jpg 300w, https://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Samsung-dp700a3d-a01us-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https://bloviatingzeppelin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Samsung-dp700a3d-a01us-450x300.jpg 450w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /></a>Today, as a replacement for the Sony Vaio, I purchased a 27″ <a href="http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Samsung+-+Series+7+27%22+Touch-Screen+All-In-One+Computer+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive/6894295.p?id=1218811215183&skuId=6894295">Samsung Series 7</a>, with an Intel® Core<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/11/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> i7 processor, 10 gigs of RAM and 2 TB hard drive. Another all-in-one with a power cord and that’s it.</p>
<p>This will be my new confuser down here in Ghetto Centrale, at my wife’s house.</p>
<p>One niggling little problem: it has Windows 8 loaded. And, from what I’ve seen, I don’t like Windows 8. You cannot get <em>any</em> new PC without Windows 8. But apparently you <em>can</em> revert back to something <em>similar</em> to Windows 7 and the desktop with the START.</p>
<p>For shite’s sake, I don’t want to re-learn some new OS every damned 6 months.</p>
<p>Thoughts, anyone, on my purchases or Windows or PCs or Macs or desktops or all-in-ones or tablets or anything else digital?</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>BZ</strong></span></p>
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