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I used to always leave my computer on over night just to have my IM away message up so that I would catch any messages people tried to send me.  But of course, it never happened, and I would feal guilty for wasing all that power it took to run my computer while doing absolutely nothing with it.

But, with Folding@Home, not only do I feel great knowing that my cycles are helping valuable research, I can leave my computer on guilt free, knowing that my power consumption is for the greater good.

Thanks Folding, for enabling my internet addiction!

A bunch of people were blogging about this pen holder earlier.  I thought It was cool and wanted to try to build one, but never really got the urge to.

But today when we were doing some cleanup at work, I found a whole bunch of unformatted Floppy disks, and knew I had to try it.

The result is not as neat as I would have hoped for, but still functional and cool.  You can check out the photos here.

I have enough mats for 2 more, so I might try one with the yellow ties and try to plan it out a little bit better, as well as document it for DIYers.

So I recently installed ubuntu linux on my laptop, and to be honest, I hate it.  It’s supposed to be linux for humans, but its far from a replacement to popular operating systems.

Maybe it’s just because my laptop is weird, but it seemed that to do anything with my laptop, I had to google the problem, hunt down the solution, and prayed that it worked for me too.  I still never fully fixed my wireless.  And the speakers have just been funky, turning the volume all the way down didn’t mute them.

I plan on switching back to XP this weekend.  I still think ubuntu looks cool, and would probably put it on a spare computer if I had one, but for now my main OS needs to be something that A) I can easily fix and B) is able to run popular applications natively (WOW, iTunes).