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My name is Joe and I'm a computer technician by choice trade default. For the last 20 years of my life I've been gainfully employed in the same field. For the last 12 years I've owned my own company, and for the last 5 years, I've owned and operated my own retail store.

Generally speaking I truly believe that computers suck. Mainly because I see so many messed up, broken, infected, and mistreated machines that I just don't have the same love or fascination for them that I once had. At least most of the time.

Sometimes though, like when I get to build a customer a nice new high end gaming rig, a high-speed number crunching machine, or even a huge server with terabytes upon terabytes of storage, a small glimmer of that previous passion comes back to me.

Between the cool build projects, one of the few things that keeps me sane and gives me some pleasure, is seeing how badly some people can mess up their computers. Some are just horribly covered in dust and dirt, others are shabbily assembled, and some are just plain messed the F up because the last time they updated their anti virus software was the same day they installed it (back in 2001).

The initial idea of this website was to document some of the worst case scenario machines we see from time to time. The ones that scream for a picture to be included because the description alone just wouldn't get the message across.

Like this before and after shot of a typical Dell Dimension.




Pictures of messed up machines aside though, I think the plan will also be to include some stories of particularly tricky fixes or problems that I had to solve that may or may not be obvious to others. The hope is that the search engines of the world will index them and maybe, just maybe, someone else out there that is having the same problems might find a solution among my ramblings.

If I feel that the site is going nowhere or that I don't have the time to keep it relatively fresh, then I'll pull the plug on it like I have dozens of times before. I'm a good starter, but a terrible finisher of projects. Ask anyone who knows me.

- Joe