Cool image of the world at night. Click the image to see it at full size.
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Theres a log here of funny irc chats. Some of my favorites are:

• Sharing a bit too much in biology
• The importance of proof-reading
• Worst night out ever
• Timing is everything

Not two days after I posted with my Apple MacBook problem the good people at apple have released a fix, Huzzah

Nice one, upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard recently. All very snazzy and apple like, icons flying from this angle, little transitions everywhere. Recently though, when I go to type I get a big fat nothing on the screen. Theres more info here at apple insider about the mysterious unresponsive keyboard problem.

My hard drive at work crapped out on Tuesday, sonofab****

Got onto the oh so nice people at Dell, excellent customer service. Drive had more errors than a dyslexic at a spelling bee. Managed to get it booted up again though and got some stuff off it. Then Dell sent out a replacement drive, nice.

Learned a valuable lesson. The two most important locations to back up if you use Thunderbird and Firefox:

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

&

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\

Copied these back onto my newly restored system and with ten minutes I had all my e-mails and internet settings back up