One man, five cats, a lot of unwanted stuff, and one mission: to sell it all at great prices. Some common, many unique, and almost everything the only one in stock – so when it's sold, it's gone!  Thanks for looking, and remember, your purchases help feed our cats. You wouldn't want my fuzzy bundles of love to go un-fed and unloved, would you?

Ever wonder how crafty politicians and people in high places manage to get themselves out of trouble? With the five D's, you no longer have to. Learn what they are, how they've been used, and most importantly, how you can use them yourself!

This was taken from my fifth speech in Toastmasters from the advanced manual "Speaking to Inform". It's been expanded and edited from the speech draft. It's meant to be semi-serious and semi-comedic.

This is a how to guide and checklist on nuking your computer and reinstalling it. It's fairly quick and dirty, and assumes the user is (re)installing Windows XP SP2 on a desktop PC, so it may be rough around the edges for those of you installing on a laptop, have esoteric hardware, or aren't installing XP.

(Note: I now heavily recommend nLite or vLite for creating custom images, but this is not covered here.)

If you've ever poked around your system BIOS or power management settings for your OS, you've likely seen an array of settings for your computer. Here I'll cover things such as what the various power management states are, the benefits and pitfalls of power management, and what you should consider using.

(Note: Semi-old essay; doesn't account for Vista's new PM features like hybrid sleep)