Home PC Uprades

Making some upgrades to my home PC and here are the Windows(tm) Performance Index scores as a result.

	PC	PC+1	PC+2	PC+3	PC+4	PC+5	PC+6
Processor	5.2	5.2	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.3
Memory	5.6	7.1	7.1	7.1	7.1	7.1	7.1
Graphics (Aero)	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.3	3.9	4.9	6.6
Graphics (Gaming)	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.2	5.9	6.3	6.6
Disk	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9	5.9

PC is the baseline for this machine.  This is the configuration this machine has had for a few years.

PC+1 is after making a memory upgrade from 3gig to 4gig.  Improvement isn't from the extra memory but that the motherboard accesses memory more efficiently when there are an even number of memory sticks installed.

Windows Performance Index Comparison

Ran the Windows(tm) Performance Index on a couple of machines I use day-to-day and was surprised by the results.

	HMPC	HMLT	WKTL
Processor	5.2	5.1	6.0
Memory	5.6	4.7	6.0
Graphics (Aero)	4.4	3.5	3.9
Graphics (Gaming)	4.2	3.5	5.2
Disk	5.9	5.9	5.7

The first machine is my home desktop (HMPC) that I use for light gaming and making home movies, the second is a home laptop (HMLT) that is just for email and web browsing, and the third is my "light weight" work laptop (WKLT).

Show: Once Upon A Time

There seem to be a few movies and shows based on fairy tales (or similar themes) out now.  One is Once Upon a Time on Hulu.  Stars Jennifer Morrison (formerly of House), Robert Carlyle (a really good bad-guy as Rumpelstiltskin) and others. I'm about six episodes into it. Here is the pilot episode if you want to check it out.

Scheduled Blog Posts

One of the most useful features of Google's Blogger blog service is the ability to schedule blog posts.  I find this has two really valuable purposes. 

The first is leveling out the tempo of my blog posts and how they show up in other social media streams.  I often find myself neglecting my blog for long periods of time but then having these frantic (often late-nite) flurries of activity with all kinds of blog goodness to share.  The problem is that this shows up as a flood of activity on my blog and in my Twitter stream and on my Facebook profile.  Too much of a good thing all at once is no longer a good thing.  Better to spread the goodness out over time. So, I use scheduled posting to write lots of posts at the same time but have them show up on my blog (and in social media) over a longer period of time.

A Better Google+ URL Address

Google+ doesn't yet offer nicer web addresses for its members but here is a "trick" that sometimes works.

The problem is that, for now, the web address for a Google+ profile ends in a really long, nearly impossible to remember, number.  For example, my profile on Google+ is located at https://plus.google.com/116362374400836482520/.  The profile for Guy Kawasaki is a https://plus.google.com/112374836634096795698/. The profile for Barak Obama https://plus.google.com/110031535020051778989.  You get the idea.

Not exactly easy to use but there is a work-around.