Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

Well, I guess I've fully embraced and converted to using Quicken Premier 2010 to manage and monitor my finances...from MSMoney Plus. The conversions kept crashing, but resulted in a file that seems to have most of my data. I had contacted support, wh… more »

I rated this 3 stars. :rs::rs::rs::ys::ys: more »

I rates this 3 stars. :rs::rs::rs::ys::ys: more »

This is the second last weekend that I can make the switch to Quicken Premier 2010, before my copy of Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe expires.It had been kind of annoying the last couple of weeks, with Microsoft Money warning of impending expiration and… more »

Supposed to be a deep fryer without all that oil....which is what drew me to it.Over the years, I have played around with deep frying.When I first moved out, I lived in this neat apartment with a gas stove. And, I tried the open pan of oil and a… more »

I rated this a 4 stars; because there's no half stars on NetFlix, but their estimation was right. :rs::rs::rs::rs::ys: more »

I make use of the middle mouse button to open new tabs off to the side/background for later reading. Especially useful with reading forums...I can go down the list of updated threads and middle click the new messages on each thread of interest off to… more »

Posting about having done my taxes for another year, after finding that I had blogged about having done so last year....made me remember another thing I blog about doing. Which reminded me that I had forgotten to do the last step of my bi-annual dayli… more »

I kind of knew that I would go all the way this time, like I had done last year....the exception might be if TurboTax did something strange again. It didn't, so I went ahead and e-filed.Federal 2186, State 431. Reported sales tax was higher tha… more »

Well, this is interesting....The best I was getting after the latest Cox speed upgrade was:But, with Wondershaper(QoS) turned off, I'm now getting speeds like these:It might be acceptable to stay with my current set up, rather tha… more »