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About four days ago I decided I wanted to get rid of a couple of things that I no longer use or no longer need, one of my computers, acoustic guitar, and some Magic the Gathering trading cards. Some of these things I have not used in nearly 10 years and about time to get rid of them. I posted all these items on Craigslist, and got some immediate responses for all three items. A couple of minutes after I posted my guitar for sale someone had responded and wanted to take a look at it. So I drove down to his job and showed it off to him. After about 20 minutes of the guy staring at it and touching it and what not he tells me that he doesn’t want it because its made in China. Thankfully he gave me a $5 bill for my troubles and gas and I drove off. Today I managed to get the guitar sold and the Magic the Gathering cards sold as well. The guitar was a pretty fast transaction, the guy that wanted it had sent his wife over and she just picked it up, gave me the money and left, it was a transaction of less than 3 minutes. On the other hand the guy that wanted the magic cards took some time checking every single card to see if there were any rare cards or what not. This guy took nearly an hour just sorting through them, to finally offer me $15 for the shoe box full of them. I took the money and he finally took off.

Craigslist has proven to be a little better than eBay mainly because I don’t have to worry about paypal transactions, and the hassle of going to the post office and waiting in line for about an hour or so to ship and item. The only thing I don’t like about it is the fact that you still get those scammer e-mails of people wanting you to send your computer to some weird country if they pay you and extra $100 and what not. I simply put in big bold letters LOCAL PICK UP ONLY.

I’ve had a Bootcamp partition running Windows Vista on my Macbook almost ever since I purchased my mac early last year. Originally when I purchased my mac I was still afraid and having second thoughts. So I had installed Vista on my mac in order to feel a little more at home. Although I had the Vista partition as a safe zone I sucked it up and hardly used Vista. I used OSX, and tried to find alternatives to the programs that I used in Vista. Luckily I managed to transition with ease, possibly because I had switched to Ubuntu for a short period. The only thing I do miss is Windows Live Writer, for use with this blog. Luckily WordPress has had a nice overhaul on their admin interface and somehow find it fairly easy to live with.

So after nearly 10 months without using my Vista partition I’ve decided it’s time to get rid of it and make good use of that hard drive space on my OSX installation. This is a short picture walk through on how to delete your Windows/Linux Bootcamp partition in OSX.

• Go to your applications folder by double clic.king your Macintosh HD > Applications Folder > Utilities and open the Boot Camp Assistant.
• Read the Introduction and select Continue.
• On the Select Task screen you want to select the Create or Remove a Windows Partition option.
• You will come to the next window Restore Disk to a Single Volume, read through the window and press the Restore Button.
• It will then ask for the main account password and continue on to the next screen.
• After a minute or two (may take longer) it will finally display the results and a quit button will appear and you are Done!

Fed up with 3ix and their servers that kept dropping offline all the time I decided to pull the plug on them. On December 1st I logged on to my site only to find out that it had randomly eating up all the bandwidth for that month. I had to temporarily move my site to Microsoft’s Live Spaces services. I chose Live Spaces at the time because I was experimenting with the Skydrive services and the fact that they had upgraded it to 25gigs. Then yesterday Lifehacker posted an amazing deal with Dreamhost, a hosting service that I have used in the past with old projects that I’ve worked with. It only took a couple of minutes to get a WordPress backup and reinstall it on a fresh install on the new host. Personally I think that is the best way to move your WordPress site from one host to another.