ah, I guess I have to admit it was a good day after all, but I don't really care much for birthdays. It's the one day of the year that you have to admit that you are getting older. I'm only 38... (but don't tell anyone that's in hexadecimal) already over most of the interesting hills i guess ( Read more... )

Well I finally got around to reading Neil Stephenson's original geek novel called Snow Crash. It was an interesting story written in the early '90s speculating on the near future which is almost now and what computers and the web and virtual realities and gameing might all become. Some close some missed but a good read for its time. I had enjoyed ( Read more... )

I finally bit the bullet and got myself a new laptop. It's a fairly basic model, Compaq Presario V2410, with AMD Turion 64 mobile processor and a measley 1/2 G of RAM. But it has all the latest bells and whistles - DVD burner, firewire, USB, cardreader, and wireless network. But that brings up a slight problem. I can't seem to get the wireless ( Read more... )