Dell came out and replaced my motherboard in 10 minutes flat. And all I had to do was write one email to them. No sweat! =] It was neat to get a closer look at the leaking capacitors too before he hauled the old motherboard away. Thanks, Dell! Of course, I’m sure I would’ve much more […]
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Dell bulging capacitors
My at-least-1-year-old computer at work was identified last week as one in a batch of Dell GX270 towers that possessed a critical defect with the capacitors in the motherboard. Like clockwork, it started exhibiting serious problems last Friday, and after 5 random shutdowns while I was just typing a document, I just gave up on […]
Gallery Upgrade
Upgraded my photo gallery to v1.5. It’s bigger and better! The homepage stats seem to load a bit faster too. Right now I’m trying to resize the photos in the Jujitsu folder. I can’t believe that by itself is 1.5 GB. The whole gallery is only 10.5 GB (which just won’t fit on 2 DVD-Rs […]
Rare Items on Amazon
Amazon.com has some pretty rare stuff listed. Check out this amazing book by Frank Donk. And who wouldn’t want a Badonkadonk? Oops, this entry is for nerds. Where’s Triumph the Comic Insult Dog when you need him? Ah, there he is. Somehow I got to all this by reading the May/June 2005 edition of Stanford […]
Time to Start the Caffeine Habit?
You gotta give it to Canada! Canadian University Offers Spam and Spyware Writing Course Anyway, that has nothing to do with anything, except that I tried Mozilla Thunderbird for a week to try its spam-filtering capabilities, only to run whimpering back to MS Outlook 2003 this week after desperately missing its wealth of features and […]