From Edison to LED lighting

I have spent hours looking for an LED bulb because of a chance find of the winner of the LED bulb considered the best (Phillips). Then I read that although it will not be enforced in 2012, incandescent bulbs are prohibited by law as of January 1, 2012. In the end I thought to buy an Edison style replica bulb before it is an illegal act. Carbon filament and all, but an LED bulb has a life of 100,000 hours compared to the incandescent lasting 2000 hours. I will wait for the LED price to settle.



Edison replica

My PLN

My PLN is not too complicated, at least not until the course is finished. I plan to add all of my commercial computer shopping, IT professional links, and news feeds to my Empire State College Blog. At that point when I am done I will link it to my web site, and those visiting will be able to find out who I am, read the Blog and click the RSS links. The other things that we have not gotten to this semester will be linked. I have a Google+ account but I am new. I will have to work on it and see if that may be the way to go with personal contacts.

Last week I added a netbook to my computer collection. My next project is to build a very fast server, but that lies in the future.

All Apple products look good. How long they last is still unknown!

Computer Shopping

How To Buy A Computer Online

Click on the title to open an instructional page about buying computers. It is not for IT professionals, because they know all there is to know. I believe personal computers have been moving towards what looks good in the home. So far most of them look awful, and they have not been comfortable and a pleasant experience when sitting for a long time, with the exception so they say of Apple products. No more. With the internal hardware nearing the mathematical edge of the ultra small, the competition is shifting towards the look and experience of the home computer. Every computer on the link page is something I would like to sit down and spend some time using.

Remember, buy looking into the future. A poor computer loses value once you take it home. A good computer (like the very expensive SAGE network) will one day be a collectors item.

Here are SAGE tech specs:

This may be the first 32-bit computer