The Lure of Easy

The other day I built a computer almost from scratch. I can admit it, I can nerd it with the best of them when pressed, ok I don’t even need to be pressed. I had a bunch of components lying around, a not too old processor, a bunch of fast RAM and a laptop hard drive all I needed was a case. That was easy to rectify as I’ve always fancied building a little PC and Shuttle do some excellent barebones machines. Now the premise of this post is not the coolness of my new computer (although it is quite nice) but the ease at which it took to build. When I was Young. When I was young and the ‘internet...