blue light special

to the tune of: Strawberry Wine by Deana Carter

So maybe the celebration was premature. My desktop started overheating again, and I discovered the CPU fan was dying. Bless my little Athlon that it gracefully cuts power instead of melting down. But I conned Kendra into taking me to Fry's and got a new fan and an even more powerful power supply. So powerful it emits a soothing blue glow out the back. Well, actually, that's the LEDs put in there for that purpose. It looks kinda cool...if you're behind the computer. From the front it almost looks eerily possessed, or maybe as if it were about to jump to warp speed or something.

Lesson learned: in a pinch, a little masking tape can stand in for screws. Let's just say it's best not to shake zozobox.

Of course, now that I have zozobox working happily, zozobook died. Won't even turn on. I'm fearing some sort of display failure and just hope the LCD doesn't need to be replaced (read: bye bye tax refund). Anyone know of any non-exorbitantly priced places that fix Sony notebooks?

Get perpendicular! Just look at all those bits boogie-ing. If you've ever seen Schoolhouse Rock, you'll appreciate this even more. If you've never seen bits disco'ing (and who hasn't these days?) even better.

It's been a long week, with a couple all-nighters. But at least it's been really nice outside...

But we did managed to get a paper published, "Evaluating Multicast Applications Using Wearable Algorithms". Don't worry, no knowledge of multicast applications or wearable algorithms is necessary to appreciate this paper.