April 2009 Entries
By now, some of you have probably seen the photos of how dirty my Model M keyboard got before I cleaned it. That keyboard hadn’t been cleaned at least since I acquired it in 1996, and I can’t be sure that its previous owner had cleaned it since its date of manufacture in 1989. Of course, the keyboard really never left my desk, so it wasn’t that bad of a dirt magnet.
Enter my laptop. Going on three years old this July, it’s been everywhere from hospitals to restaurants to train stations – it quite literally provokes a, “Do you know...
…is out. I’d give it a try, but apparently PS/2 mice and Synaptics trackpads don’t get along well anymore in X. Dear Ubuntu maintainers: this is bad because Windows 7 RC1 releases next week.
Well, it’s official – my laptop has a problem cooling itself again. I might end up buying canned air and cleaning out the fan and heatsink before assuming the worst, though.
I found some particularly well-placed graffiti on the way home today – well enough that I walked back later on to take a photo of it.
I’ll bet that it will be quite some time before Uncle Sam resolves the politics of removing the graffiti.