After three years, I have added another feature to my Weather Station reporting templates - National Weather Service Forecasts.

Ladies and Gentlemen!  In this corner we have the venerable Dell Studio 1536 running Windows 10.  In the opposing corner, we have the youngster Lenovo N22-20 running ChromeOS.  Let's get ready to rumble!

While I have been using computers in general for a long time, and have been using Android phones and tablets, there I am still having to learn things with my Chromebook.

The operation was a success, and the patient still lives!

Or in better terms, the refurbishment project has been successfully completed, and the PC is once again a usable system.

Here is Part 2 of my Refurbishment Project of a former HTPC system that had been sitting mostly disassembled since early 2016.  The budget for this project is $50.  Here, we go through the initial re-assembly of the system and find some more problems that have to be dealt with.

Looking through my assorted collection of computer equipment, I have decided on a project.  I will be refurbishing my old Home Theater PC that I originally built in 2009.  This system has had some scavenging done over the years since its retirement, so I may have to dig up or purchase some components.  However, as I have a Roku device and a media server, this older PC will not be used as a HTPC, but either as a general purpose system or maybe as a physical Active Directory Server.  My budget for this project is about $50.

What do you do with a two year old stock smartphone when for various reasons you aren't prepared to replace it with a new one?

One option is to install a custom ROM so you can still take advantage of newer software. In 2012, I upgraded my Motorola Droid 3 to the Droid 4 in order to keep my unlimited data plan with Verizon Wireless and gain the advantage of 4G LTE.