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• More fun with technology
  Looks like my home computer has stopped working. Most likely it's some kind of thermal-related hardware flakiness, and it'll be basically okay once rebooted. But since I a
• More updates
  Very soon I'll be taking down and packing my main desktop computer. Although I'll still be able to read and write plain text email and make Web log postings after that, I
• eWaste follow-up
  Left the dead computer and a cardboard box full of other electronic stuff out last night for collection early this morning, as directed by the building superintendent. It
• For great justice
  I'm not planning to post further continuous updates on my move to the new computer, but at least one correspondent commented that she hadn't seen any further updates in a
• We get signal?
  So, here we are. It's 3:45pm on Wednesday, and I'm home again after a relatively brief trip to Waterloo. I wanted to be there this morning for a meet-n-greet meeting with
• Main screen turn on
  Tuesday, 6:05pm : Today I took time out from work for a trip out to Kennedy (the Eastern terminus of the main Toronto subway line) to visit Canada Computers (whose downtow
• Rebuilding
  I'm going to experiment with updating this entry in near-real-time as I work on putting together my new computer system. As of now (first posting) it's about 1:45pm. UPS,
• Or not
  Smoke test with new power supply, and opal's motherboard in diamond's case: no go. The fans spin up and then spin down immediately. On roughly one boot attempt in four, se
• 灰から、新しいパソコン
  Geekery below. This entry is in English notwithstanding the title, which is supposed to mean "from ashes, a new computer." I'm on the way to fixing the PC woes mentioned i
• Curses, foiled again
  I just came home to an unusual silence. No fans. My main desktop computer was not running. That's especially bad because it is supposed to come up all by itself in the eve
• Time for a new audio/video player
  The clicky spring inside the "forward" switch on my Visual Land VL-878 audio/video player has given up the ghost. As a result, it doesn't click when I press the button; in

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