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A few days ago my cats were scrapping and playing around my PC. As one of them tried to scramble to safety he bumped into my PC, and the Flash drive sticking out of the front of it, and completely shattered the thing.

This probably wouldn't be nearly as humurous if I hadn't finished copying off the all the files minutes before this happened. It was only a 1 GB drive, so it wasn't like it was a major blow to the pocket book. (A brief pause here as I recall the not-so-long-ago time when I & the rest of the IT staff were issued 256MB Flash drives. We thought it was so awesome that we could go around installing apps without carrying around a bulky case of CDs or needing network access.)

Oh well, it served me well for a few years. And, since these things are dirt cheap now I might as well jump over to Amazon and order a new one.

If you've ever worked in IT Support on any level you'll probably find these hilarious. I'm pretty sure that I never played a game while talking to a user on the phone, but I definitely knew guys who did. I don't think I ever really played games at work. Then again, I'm not much of a gamer. Ok, maybe if I was working the week between Christmas and New Year's. That was always a sloooow time. Half of the people in the building were off and half of the rest weren't really working. That was the time of the year you did things like clean up the server room, organize things in the office, maybe throw out some junk. And, when you were done with that, maybe play a few games. If anything, I played Tetris. Anyway, enjoy the hilarity below...

I be remiss if I didn't mention my latest geek filled endeavor. Back in February of this year, I signed on as a contributing writer for the popular website, How-to Geek. If you hop on over there you'll notice my distinctive animated image on the front page.

So far, I really digging my experience there. If you notice my frequent linking to articles at How-to Geek, you'll know why.

So, if you dig the kind of geekery I'm dishing out over here, be sure to check out the geekery over at How-to Geek.

Or, more likely, if you found your way here because you read me on How-to Geek, thanks for stopping by. I hope you found some interesting stuff and we come back often and read what I have to say.

Many of you who follow college basketball are aware of the ability to watch the games of the NCAA Basketball tournament though March Madness on Demand. I not the world's biggest basketball fan, but I usually tune in and follow the "madness" online. I also have a 4 monitor setup. Often I'm only using two, but I have a third hooked up to my "main PC" and a fourth is connect to a test machine I have here for various projects.

Since it's that time of year, and I'm passively watching the games while working here on my PC, I thought I give a little glimpse of what it's like to watch 4 games at once. Now, granted there aren't always 4 games going on at once, but there are some times during the first couple days of March Madness that four games are being played concurrently.

What is my setup?  Well, you could actually do it on a single PC w/ 4 browsers, but as I mentioned previously I am using 2 PCs hooked up to 4 monitors. One of the games is through a TV tuner card and my cable system. The other three are through the browser and March Madness on Demand. However, it was a bit sluggish running all of these games through my router.

This is Thursday afternoon, March 18, 2010. The two games on the top are actually both Florida vs. BYU, but as there were only 3 early afternoon games, I just doubled up for the effect.

I do really like the concept of watching live sporting events online and hope to see this adopted by some of the other major sporting events. Especially some of the events that take place during the regular work week like some of the major golf tournaments.

Watch March Madness online