Wow, I'm getting better! I hope I don't get burned out...

Hi All, I'm back... sorta. I'm changing the focus of this blog from a tech oriented blog to a personal blog. Which means I'll still talk about tech a lot, but I also want the freedom to talk about whatever else I feel like. Just wanted to give you guys a heads up, so you'll know what to expect and can unsubscribe if you want :-). I'm also not going to promise to post regularly, but I will post often. A lot more often that I have been (hehe... sorry about that...). Anyway, I'm back... in some capacity

Hill Side , originally uploaded by tcrichard . I usually use w.bloggar, but I'm playing around with posting some of my photos directly from Flickr. Having a bit of trouble with formatting, so I'm running a few test pictures to see if I can get things working happily.

Another from Newport Beach... Originally uploaded by tcrichard . I put some pictures up on Flickr ( http://flickr.com/tcrichard for my pics)and this was one of my favorites. It was from a trip to Newport, Oregon we took over the July 4th holiday. I'm also looking to get rid of my Sony DSC-T1 BECAUSE I ABSOLUTELY HATE IT!!! Any suggestions for new digital cameras? At or below $400, please. Also, if anyone wants to buy a Sony DSC-T1, I'll give you a deal on it ;-)

My girlfriend got a blog! http://rescue3debbie.blogspot.com ! That picture of me isn't very good, btw...

So today my new Dell Axim V50x was delivered. Yes, a beautiful, crisp 640x480 display, Bluetooth, Wifi... a 624 XScale processor as well as a 1 gig flash disk drive... I'm very excited :-) And scheduled for arrival tomorrow is my Audiovox SMT 5600. Woo hoo! The problem with all of these things is that they were delieved to my dorm in Nebraska... and I'm in Washington state. Till Tuesday:( And of course the mailroom will be closed when I get in, so I won't have my toys till Wednesday. I guess I'll

Well, it's that time of the month again... Today Microsoft released six security bulletins (three of them critical). Find more info here , and be sure to head over to WindowsUpdate or make sure AU is on. And for those of you playing along at home, our favorite server is vulnerable to all of these problems. Sigh...

There is no virus for Windows Vista!!!!! This is one piece of news that really got me riled up. What happened is someone determined some commands in Monad (Microsoft's Unix-like command line console - although calling it Unix-like doesn't really give it enough credit) could create havoc and published a report about them on the web. Somehow this translated to there being a virus affecting Windows Vista beta 1 running crazy on the internet. Just to make this clear, WINDOWS VISTA WILL NOT INCLUDE MONAD

Woo hoo, I can't wait to get back to school... only 9 days! I'll be in Seattle early next week and fly from there to Nebraska (where I go to school) on the 16th. I'm really looking forward to this year for many many reasons. I think this is gonna be a great year.

Well after a rather lengthy recess, I'm back. Seriously this time. I mean it! I was going post this earlier but our power was out all night. Anyway, I'll talk more tomorrow (Sunday)...