I found a new musical artist through this article. I went to the "popular culture" section of the wiki, and then found This Binary Universe, by BT. The album features a track called "The Antikythera Mechanism". It's good, calming electronica. d-.-b

Something I've always envisioned was using the DC power collected by solar cells for computers, directly. We all know that energy is lost in conversions, so why not skip that step? This would require power supply companies to standardize a port for the cells to plug into, but with everyone having a PC these days, I think it's a worth while idea.

I've a drive in my system that conked out (horrible noises, followed by disappearing from My Computer). I didn't honestly lose anything I cared about, just things I could reacquire if I wanted. But then later, it returned to My Computer, and I transferred what I wanted to another hard drive, followed by it disappearing again. But now it's back again...