I've been listening to a few mixes by DJ Mooch (aka Jesus Climent, of Planet Debian fame) recently.
He's only put out two so far. "No Disc Space" is a sweet house set and "43 Minutes of Drum 'n' Bass"... well you can guess what that is.
Go download and enjoy them from his TripleStereo site.
The other day I got in my car and saw the bluetooth headset sitting in my centre console. I was holding my car keys in my right hand. I wear the headset on my right ear. I picked up the headset with my left hand, and put my keys in my ear.
Then I laughed at myself.
I'm a big fan of home surgery. The nails on my big toes are majorly deformed after years of "corrective surgery" but it works for me. When I was climbing this was especially essential, because the climbing shoes are always too tight for comfort and my feet would sometimes bleed.
My laptop had been playing up recently. The screen would flicker horizontally and then turn off. Flexing the motherboard (yeah, that sounds safe) would cause it to correct itself. It wasn't pretty, but it worked.
... for a while. Then it turned off and needed bashing instead of flexing. It was getting worse, so I took it to WJ Moncreif to repair. They looked at it last time and fixed it. $137.50 later and they told me they're reseated a few cables. "Cool" I thought. I expected it was just a loose cable. I get it home and it works for a whlie and then goes back to its old ways. Two days later I took it back to Moncreif and spoke with the technician. He was helpful but stressed there wasn't much he could do short of replacing the entire motherboard. I devised a plan.
The keyboard is easy to remove, and the video cable that connects the motherboard to the LCD display is visible. Pushing and prdding it fixed the problem as it occured, so that was what I needed to target. I stacked some double-sided tape on top of itself to make a double-thickness piece, and stuck it on top of the contact point. I replaced the keyboard and it seems to have done the job. It's been in my docking station this entire time so I hope when it's mobile that it doesn't borgenstein again.
About 6 weeks ago I spent an hour filling in some online market research conducted by AC Neilson for Lego. A few days after that I received an email saying that I had been selected for a free thank-you gift. "Nice" I thought, but didn't expect much. Maybe a little car or something...
Last Friday I received an email from our office staff indicating that I had a package at reception. I connected the dots and presumed the Lego had arrived. Then I thought a bit more... "how come they emailed me? Why not just put it in my pigeon hole? Maybe it doesn't fit!?"
I dropped past the office after dinner with some Maggie's family. Waiting for me was a 1:10 scale model of a Ferrari F1 racer. It took me about 3 hours to build on the Sunday, and is on special at the Lego Shop if you want your own :)