Hey Guys.
Well, I've had an interesting 48 hours, if nothing else.

My computer, the faithful beast, has decided to grow an attitude and spit metalic
objects at me. The COM port (used for modem, and my thesis program testing(!!)) died last night in spectacular fashion.

It spat the broken pins into my motherboard which then shorted one of the buses
which brought the whole system grinding to a halt, and crying like a girl.

After swearing, cursing, and making futile threats against its family, the computer is STILL broken and I'm working toward getting a replacement as soon as physically possible.

Thus, for the next day or so, my connection to the net is going to be virtually
non existant.

On the upside.... 1.7GHz, 256Mb , 40Gb are some nice specs to have. Now I cant wait til i have a non-broken modem cable so i dont have to sit hunched up trying to keep the connection together with my fingers. typing with only my right hand is painful for the shoulder.

Doyle.