wireless fail

Default settings on Vista for my non-functioning wireless card. It took me a while to trace its non-functionality to this one (fucking) stupid registry setting. Somewhere, someone thought it might be useful that my wireless card wouldn't use DHCP by default.

Moron.

too good to be true

Okay, so the last guy was trying to steal my money, but I got a laptop that was a little worse for a little better price:

$630

Well, truthfully, quite a bit worse. But now I don't feel as though I'm ripping someone off, so it's all good. :)

Dell Latitude D830

If all goes well, this is what $680 is going to get me:

Dell Latitude D830
Processor Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7700 2.40 GHz 800 MHz FSB
Display 15.4" Widescreen UXGA LCD Panel - 1920x1200 resolution
Memory 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM (2x1 GB) 667 Mhz
Video Card Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (Up to 256 MB shared)
Hard Drive 160 GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive
Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
Network Interface Integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet and v.92 56k Modem
Optical Drive 8X DVD+/-RW (DVD and CD Burner)
Wireless Networking Intel 4965 WiFi works with 802.11 a/g/Draft n
Dell 360 Bluetooth 2.1

Sound Integrated Sound W/ Subwoofer
Battery 85 WHr 9 cell Lithium Ion Battery
Warranty 3 Year Limited Warranty, On Site Next Business Day, 24x7 Technical Support
Security Subscription None
Internet Access 6 months Free AOL, AOL for Broadband, NetZero ISP, Netscape ISP
Ports and Configuration IEEE 1394 (firewire)
(3) USB 2.0 Ports
PC Card
Serial Port
SDRAM Configuration: 2 SoDIMM slots DDR2 4 GB Max!
Express Slot
Monitor Output Connection (15 pin)
S-Video Output (7 pin mini-DIN)
10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN (RJ-45 connector)
Modem (RJ-11 connector)

Included Software Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0
Windows Media Player 10
DELL SUPPORT 3.0
Image Restore
Dell Owners Manual installed on system
Dell Direct Download

Fuck yeah? FUCK YEAH!

higgledy-piggledy is a word ya know

This meteorite, approximately 4.5 billion years old (the age of our Sun and solar system), is not that important.

What IS important is the organic matter inside the meteorite, which is apparently older than the meteorite itself.

From the National Geographic article:
"What's really striking about this is that these globules clearly could not possibly have formed where [the meteorite] itself formed," Messenger said.

"Under those extreme conditions the air that you'd breathe would be solid ice. You would never find those conditions in the asteroid belt or anywhere close to the sun."

. . .

The meteorite likely formed in the outer reaches of the asteroid belt, but the organic material it contains probably had a far more distant origin.

Keep in mind that organic != life. But it's a possibility that could explain the origins of life on Earth. That, of course, or some sort of omnipotent being who looks like a ape and decided to create beings all higgledy-piggledy in His own image, because He's just that self-centered and confused.