Especially to those of us who grew up with The Clash, aka the “only band that ever mattered”. Joe Strummer died yesterday of an apparent heart attack. Man, I feel a little bit older today.

Go read Kevin’s evaluation of the Microtel $199 Walmart PC, later, when you have more time.

Yeah it’s time to crack open the case on that laptop and replace the hard drive. It occurs to me that of all the HD replacements I’ve done over the last few years of working here, this will be the first time I’ve done one on a laptop. That’ll be something new and interesting to…

Last night I found some interesting useful things to do with my Pocket PC. Sleeping at the in-laws, I used a CF card full off MP3’s and my stereo headphones to fall asleep to music without bothering my wife, or having to lug around any extra cd player or cd’s. Then, when I woke up…

The laptop hard drive, which was ordered after 3 PM yesterday, and which I was told by the Compaq help desk person to not expect until Monday, maybe even Tuesday, arrived before 9 o’clock this morning. I probably won’t even attempt to work on that until Monday anyway though, as I’m leaving at noon today…