16:10 amenities

Two big Far's fit nicely side-by-side on my 2007WFP. Now I have two Far's on my start menu, a right Far and a left Far, and two keyboard shortcuts. The only drawback of this arrangement is that panel operations between the two Far's don't work as visually expected. I had to resource-hack two copies of Far.exe for full effect, though. Gaheh ^..^

Gentleman's things

Came back from a visit to friends' with these picturesque items.

Sister's bag

Radish

New 500GB hard drive

Spectacles

Street sign

Dumping more random links

These are MotorWave microturbines.

Krolyk's article about PC cooling systems somehow fits with the microturbines.

Tyler Cowen links to a list of best sci-fi, but it's a bother to buy these from Ukraine. Maybe I'll read a couple of titles from this list someday.

F. L. Allen writes about the great stock market crash of 1929.

In From Sea to Sea, R. Kipling writes about Japan, among other things. I liked his idea of establishing a world protectorate over Japan (so she would not have to absorb Western influences) until the West grew up to Japan's level.

This update closes some hole or other in Windows's Server service. When the Server crashes because of this hole, Windows Audio goes down too and it's very annoying to have to restart it.

~shel-yang draws fabulous anime-style watercolors, among other things.

Finally, a new monitor

Finally got my backside off the chair and ordered this Dell UltraSharp 2007WFP to replace my ancient ViewSonic pf775. Also, my anime collection has expanded so much that I had to order a 500Gb hard drive in addition to the 300Gb one I have now. I hate keeping stuff on DVD-Rs and similar media. HDDs are only marginally more expensive per Gb, they don't scratch, take up less space and are always available.

A bit bananas

This Japanese juice package looks gorgeous, but isn't writing where to stick in the straw a bit idiotic?