I live in an area where we have frequent, unannounced brownouts. They can range from a few minutes to a few hours and there's no way to tell which is which until after the fact. The most frustrating part about not having electricity for more than a few minutes is that I no longer have an Internet connection for obvious reasons.

I had already planned to buy a diesel-powered backup generator for the house, and that plan still stands, but I've now added a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) to my backup plans, way ahead of anything else.

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Since the time I wrote about some shopping comparison sites where you can find laptops, I've come across two more. Actually, the two I came across were via StumbleUpon notifications. I'm not really into social networking anymore, but there are still some people who think I am.

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While I was writing a post about netbook, notebook and laptop computers on my main blog, I was inspired to set up this site.

Until the beginning of July, 2009, I'll be doing some online window shopping of netbook computers. I already own a now-dead notebook computer and I don't feel like taking that route again.

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