Jeff Hayes's Page

Age

50

About Me:

To quote Gomez Addams, "I don't suffer from insanity... I thoroughly enjoy it!" :) I play in the dirt a little bit (perennials, shrubs, water garden, volunteer at local woodland garden and with my active garden club)... I'm a VIDIOT, which means, both the COMPUTER and the TV are always on at the same time, and even so, half the time the computer's recording something on Media Center because I can't watch two things at once... About the only major sport I really enjoy is tennis, and I'm watching U.S. Open on USA right now (kindasorta)... Like classical, jazz, art rock (think Pink, Yes, Parsons Project, etc.) and some various others, Single, straight and still looking, ladies... Happy to see Harry's up and running.

I'm proof you can be a native white Southern boy and still like Obama, too!

Technology Interests, Preferences, and/or Passions:

I'm not QUITE the "technogeek" I maybe once was, maybe because I came to realize I didn't have the money to be "all that" and also because I got tired of seeing the technology just change too fast... Big fan of HDTV, although I'm stuck at 720P for the forseeable future (and peeved that Cable is stuck at so few channels, as I'm just not comfortable going DISH or Direct at present). Regardless of all the paranoia at PC World, I upgraded to Vista as soon as it came out, and after literally MONTHS of HELL and about 10 re-installs, lol, I finally got it "right." When it works, it works pretty well... Stuck with my Circa Nov. 2006 Dell XPS 410 Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz with 4 GB of RAM for probably the next couple of years, since I relented on the extended warranty... Have a similar level HP 17" laptop I bought about a year ago so I could have it for a cross-country vacation to download digital photos (big on that, too), hardly used it, since.

Will doubtless go quad-core or MORE when the time comes... Was Mac for a number of years, and would like to go cross-platform again, but Mac is STILL way overpriced and I'm not "going there" as long as they are.

I've downloaded Linux, but not used it... Same with Firefox... I'm too interested in getting UTILITY out of my computers to be constantly trying out and learning NEW PROGRAMS and OSes... Something I decided about 20 years ago, after I became "an expert" on DOS 5.0 and Microsoft Works (both KILLER at the time), only to see them both left "in the dust." I can't keep up, and why should I try.

I like to surf, take and edit pictures, maybe a bit of the same with video... I don't want to have 3 to 5 ways to debate doing each, just ONE reliable, easy, SAFE way.

I use:

Windows

First Computer I Ever Owned and/or Used:

Brother had a that first TRS... the one you could play Space Invaders on your TV with.

Twitter name (if you've got one!)

Hmph... who has time to Twitter, email, post to boards AND Surf???