Today and tomorrow are Spare the
Air days, making these the fifth and sixth of three allocated free fare ( Read more... )

As of this evening I have a new phone, a Motorola V325; those of you who ( Read more... )

Remember this issue
on shion from half a month ago? Great news: the Dell technician
finally arrived today to replace the keyboard.

At this point, I feel compelled to stress that the keyboard was
replaced. Which was clearly the most critical issue I mentioned in my
original problem report, and was the problem that kept me from bringing
shion to ( Read more... )

Jyasu, Destroyer of Laptops, has finally witnessed a display hinge
failure on shion (noted in a post late last month, but the hinge
has been working itself loose since the last maintenance call and subsequent
disassembly). Rang Dell for what will probably be the last maintenance
request for shion; I'm having both the casing and keyboard ( Read more... )

Seen on Google's pages for
this year's contribution to their long-standing tradition:

"...ha ha, wasn't that amusing and harmless and mostly in good
taste and not all psychologically damaging under various and sundry aspects
of contemporary tort law, please don't sue us [...]".

I am simultaneously highly amused by this quote, and wondering ( Read more... )

Since Livejournal didn't see fit to let us opt out of having Flash
objects embedded in our journals (for voiceposts), I have written a function
to manually scrub the offending

shion's display hinge is showing signs of imminent failure
again, so I decided to go ahead with the order for a replacement
laptop...

Meditation revealed that the one true path for the next laptop was to be ( Read more... )

Mostly self references to recent LJ nonsense:

( Safe to ignore; I want to collect these links somewhere )

( Contains spoilers that I didn't expect would be spoilers. Sorry about that. )

Addition to criteria for my upcoming laptop acquisition: if it is
capable of playing Second Reality through the waterfall/vectorball
crash point, then it is a worthy laptop. Bonus points if it can also run
the starfield sequence at full speed and reach field saturation without
crashing (2ndfix u).

Point of reference: shion survived the ( Read more... )