Hi all. The past 24 hours have been action packed for me. I got the majority of the new equipment I ordered, detailed in the post “It’s Better to Receive Than Give?” . I was just walking home Wednesday afternoon, turned the corner and saw the FedEx truck rolling to a stop in front of my house. Talk about timing! I hate it when you get the sticky notes indicated missed delivery, and there’s no way I would have wanted them to leave the big red Viewsonic box on the front stoop.

So, I have the Viewsonic VP201s LCD Display as the centerpiece of my desk. It weighs about the same as my old Princeton 17″ LCD, and seems to take up less space (the bezel is very thin). The display is so bright and crisp, I’m still in shock. I’m running DVI input now from my PC, which helps.

Next, I setup the Linksys 54G Wireless Bride w/ 5-port switch. This allowed me to hook up two odd-man out systems (one an old Dell w/ SUSE Linux, the other an old PowerMac G3 w/ OS 10.3.5) via 10/100Base-T cable. Then I hooked up the new IOGEAR 4-port USB KVM Switch so I could operate them from a single console, leaving a spare KVM cable free to hook up to any desktops I rebuild for customers.

And one non-geek think I did today was to clean out the closet in my basement office area. It’s been a typical “shove it in and close the door” closet for a long time, and I decided I had enough with that (with a little help from my hyper-organized wife). The Container Store is running their annual Elfa sale, so I popped in and one of their highly skilled planners whipped up a schematic on the spot using a customized CAD program. Once he finished the design, it created a list of SKUs necessary for the project, and they efficiently cut the shelves to the specified width and assembled the rest of the parts. They have impressive automation and back-end systems, not to mention helpful and motivated in-store personnel. So after about an hour of assembly, my closet is now a lean, mean storage machine. I can’t recommend that place enough, they have great stuff for us tech-heads to keep organized.