The laptop is dead. I've located the sound of the humming: it's the processor. Yup, my processor hums, after the computer has shut itself down in the middle of operation. Bad. However, I'm still not convinced the processor is the problem. I think it may have to do with the power supply's feed to the processor. When I bootup off battery, I am ( Read more... )

My computer just busted on me. A good bust, not a cheap one just for the thrill of it that I can fix pretty easily. It had been acting up the last couple days, booting into OS 9 despite the fact that OS X is cleary the startup disk, resetting the date/time. Usually that means the internal battery is going dead. Two reboots and the problem was ( Read more... )

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Can't seem to sleep this evening, have women and programming on the mind. Let's start with the simpler one ( Read more... )

What can I say?

My house is crazy. People are everywhere, strangers, well, not strangers, friends of the family who I don't know all that well even though they know me, coming into my room at 9:00am, taking wedding things, rose petals, dishes, trays, that were stored there for the wedding, my mom telling me to wake up when I went to sleep four and a half hours ( Read more... )

Just read on CNN that while world population growth is expected to increase 50% by 2050, many industrial nations would see a smaller population, German, Japan, and Russia among them. 3rd world and rapidly developing nations will carry much of the increase. The US is among them, with a projected rise of 43 percent to 420 million ( Read more... )

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Mark sat in the easy chair, gently smoking his pipe and looking into the empty distance of his living room. A fan was on overhead. Mark had just finished reading a short story and was with apathy trying to inspire a few thoughts about it. Mark's glasses were on the stand beside him, and the living room furniture was a blur. Nothing stood out, ( Read more... )