A friend of mine is interested in getting a pattern laser etched into the lid of his Macbook Pro. I may well do the same thing if I can't find a suitable sticker to replace the flames from my old machine.

Any ideas where to do it Seattle-local? Worst case scenario is we ship it off to our friends at Squid Labs. Alternately, it looks like these ( Read more... )

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So, the compressed recap.

Went to Portland. Met. Ate. Hung out with people, including a great sunday evening conversation with alphaskye.

Came home on the monday morning train. Was sick after three days of early mornings (ok, 9am is early for some of us) and too many cat alergens all over me. Took a cab home from the train station. Picked up the sick ( Read more... )

My laptop has been kindof unstable lately. This morning, between crashes, I got a dialog box I've never seen before. The built in memory test detected a problem. Please contact a service technician. Uh-oh. Rebooted into OS X cause it's more stable and ran the standard system check bits. System profiler reported one of my 256MB SIMMs as 512MB. So I ( Read more... )