It's More Fun To Compute, When It Doesn't Break

Just started working on my FreeBSD machine that went down. Dust anyone? Dust? Turns out the power supply went bad. Luckily it happened now rather than while I'm in England! I picked up a nice dual fan Antec supply from CompUSA. I was about to purchase a new camera as well, but I balked at the last second. They ran out of them as well, so tomorrow I'll be driving all over creation trying to score one. Looking at the W55 from Sony. I have a Nikon Coolpix 4300 and love it, but I need something smaller to ram into any given pocket, these jeans can only hold so much technology.

Came home to a broken network again, so I swapped my Linksys router in place of my suck Netgear WGR-614. It has been acting retarded for the last two months, losing DNS and screwing up Comcast's DHCP. I'm going to bring a Linksys router with me, so can invent wireless whereever I go! Hopefully my bag won't get blown up at the airport when they see the antennas.

Prepare for Launch!

Made a short list of things I should do before I go. Bought Advance Wars: Dual Strike, and Clubhouse Games, which is a bunch of card and board games for DS that is playable with only one cart. I'll be whooping ass on the plane before I even land!

I'm going to take all my Crayon Shinchan comics with me. That's a great way to burn some brain cycles and get me to eventually sleep.

Gotta get my FreeBSD machine up and kicking so I have a safe haven to tunnel back to as well as a file drop.

Most important list item is the last. According to Google, dollars trade up two for one into pounds. At least now my money will be in different sizes so I can tell them apart in the dark. And I get to say quid a lot. I'm still trying to figure out where the best joint to exchange my money is. If anyone knows, ship me some email so I can sort that out. I'm nearly finish everything on my list, so all I need to do is take inventory and make sure I don't do something dumb like leave my laptop charger at home.

Test post?

This is a test post for my travel blog "NJ in the UK". Lets see how it goes...