Home Sick

Well, it's been a tough week for the McNally household. Danny has been sick for quite sometime now, first with a sinus infection for which he just finished antibiotics and now with something seemingly viral. Inna on the otherhand came down with something akin to tonsillitis and is also using antibiotics to fend off the infection. She's doing much better now even after just a couple of days, but poor Danny looks in the wars. Home has become his daycare this week with everybody taking it in turns to take care of him.

L421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank

Owen pointed this out to me. Such an amusing read, I had to follow his suggestion and blog it. Be sure to read the reviews.

Overheating CPU

My machine continues to behave in a manner that keeps me on my toes. In the last two days, I've either come home or woken up to a machine that had turned itself off. Not a good sign. My thinking is that either a faulty power-supply or overheating CPU is causing the problem. Investigating I find that my CPU (and rather dated AMD XP2800+) is running at 70 C when Windows XP is idle - on the high side. So it seems I need to clean out the box and re-seat the heatsink. Having done this a couple of times already makes me wonder if I'm doing it too often (once a year). Has anybody else been faced with having to do the same? Is this normal to have to re-seat the sink every year or so? I'm using arctic silver compound which is supposed to be good. Is there a better compound out?

Nerdiness Levels

Super Bowl Drinking Game...

I had to +digg this article:

This is a great drinking game for the Super Bowl. If you don't think this is tech related enough, then play it in a chat room with your digital friends. Hell, the first 5 minutes of Diggnation are about beer- so sac up and get drunk for the super bowl.

Laurie, I'm thinking of you here!

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