Pete Czech

Fellow “LOST” fans will appreciate this one…  Go to Kayak.com, search for a one way ticket from SYD to LAX on 9/22/2010, and you’ll notice a new carrier is available:

Is this a real LOST clue?  Eh, probably not.  Interesting though that the flight time is only 10 hours, 8 minutes when in reality it would [...]

I took a chance recently on one of these Philips “Energy Lights”…  Now, we all know that Seasonal Affective Disorder is a real thing and apparently, some countries have large percentages of their population that suffer from it (Philips = Dutch, where the rate is over 10%).  With the short days and cold weather, who [...]

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Its late at night, and I’m watching “Pawn Stars” on The History Channel.  As I watch, I’m absolutely amazed at how terrible most people are at negotiating.  Now, the variable here is that in most cases, people who are headed to the pawn shop are probably hard-up for cash.  I get that.  But still, the [...]

With 2009 coming to a close, I figured I’d list some cool toys, gadgets, and similar items that definitely heightened my enjoyment of 2009.  Without further ado, here is the list:

The Flip Ultra HD: I had given up on camcorders… They were bulky, they only did one thing, they were difficult to move to computerized [...]

Having spent all day getting all of my social sites integrated with Posterous…. This is the final test.!

Finally, after 4 years in our house, we did something about our floors.  We built on top of a 75+ year old unrepairable floor with a new subfloor and laid down some Brazilian Cherry – which in my opinion – looks great.  We also reran piping to the radiators to make it heat up faster [...]

I am the victim of really bad customer service.  My recent purchase of the Studio XPS 13 (or XPS 1340) was a complete disaster.  So much so, that I sent a letter to Michael Dell via FEDEX to register my complaint.  Rather than rewrite the entire story, here is the letter I sent to them:
2-September [...]