It's alive!

It's always a relief to the computer builder when you push the on button for the first time and get a successful POST (Power On Self Test).

The joys of assembling your own computer:
o You get exactly the components you want; no proprietary, non-standard parts.
o You can build a machine with specs exceeding what you can configure on a manufacturers website.
o You don't have any inhibitions about tearing it apart to upgrade it or replace a misbehaving part.

The woes of assembling your own computer:
o You have to choose compatible parts from the hundreds available.
o Little incompatibility gotchas are everywhere.
o You can destroy hundreds of dollars of fragile parts with a fumble, static discharge or wrong connection.
o It's hard to decide when to stop tweaking the system and replacing parts.

Blowing Chunks

With five BSDM events on consecutive evenings I was probably asking for it but getting sick is a total pain in the gut. Now I have to wait and see if it's 'flu or just something I ate...

What's that tune?

Well something I've been pondering for a few months... when I turn the radio on during my commute the rock channels don't seem to be playing music at all - just ads and inane DJ prattle. But when I'm driving home from a club in the wee small hours or late for work in the morning (events that are totally unrelated of course) there's plenty of rock music all over the dial.

Well now I have the proof - I was trying to find the name of a song that I'd just heard on LIVE 105 with barely audible lyrics (it turned out to be Silversun Pickups/Well Thought Out Twinkles) when I came across the Station Logs on www.yes.com

3am-4am: 14 songs
4am-5am: 14 songs
5am-6am: 6 songs
6am-7am: 3 songs
7am-8am: 4 songs
8am-9am: 2 songs!
9am-10am: 3 songs
10am-11am: 14 songs
11am-12pm: 13 songs

I've heard that on a long drive, music can be as bad for alertness as silence, and that you should really listen to talk radio... Thank you LIVE 105 for reducing song density during peak commute hours and thereby contributing to road safety!