My laptop has officially been pronounced kaput. It's the motherboard or the processor or something similarly fatal - the cost and effort of fixing it simply isn't worth it. So I'm laptop hunting ... and there are so many options, and I'm awful at making decisions; I research and research and become paralyzed with minutiae ( Read more... )

This is the first time I've flown since I got my iPod (what is the deal with not being able to listen to your iPod during takeoff and landing?  If that's enough to bring a plane down, we're all in deep trouble).  I actually got it for Chanukah, over a month ago, but it took me a while to start figuring out when to use it.  It sat on my desk, all ( Read more... )

Oh, I am so behind with everything fannish. This weekend I did something that caused me to lose access to my secondary HD. It all started when I couldn't install iTunes on my desktop and decided it might be a good idea to do an "install repair" of Windows (because my research indicated that Windows "degrades" over the years - man, Microsoft sucks ( Read more... )