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We drove down to Fry's today, because I have an old Thinkpad 600 (bought from Punch for about $25 when we moved offices) that needed some love before it could be useful. It had about 64M RAM, and about 3GB disk. I wanted more RAM and disk, and bought another wireless ether card. I ended up putting this card in my work laptop, because it's newer, and it gets an incredibly strong signal compared to the other. Since that's an issue in the office, I want the hairiest card possible in there.

I installed the RAM without incident, but the HD required a BIOS update, and just started flickering the screen. D'oh! It apparently doesn't really love the 802.11b card, because the screen cut out at random. I'll put it back in after the Deadrat installation is done, and see if it behaves differently.

Anyway, we drove back up 280, and stopped off at Half Moon Bay. It was an unplanned stop, so we didn't bring a camera, but it was a nice break. Windy and stormy at the beach. After that, we stopped at Home Depot for a hand drill. They didn't have one! A hand drill!

Savages.

At least now, I can use a laptop when I don't bring one home from work, and someone hogs the fast one.

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