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7 September 2010 - 3:00am — Christopher Wright
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Misc: Yes, I'm Still Alive. No, I Haven't Quit. Yes, We Have No Banannas.

1 June 2010 - 11:05am — Christopher Wright

Just a quick update. My day job is still shoving the rest of my free time aside, so those of you waiting for me to update again are going to have to wait a little longer. By "little" I mean "an unspecified amount of time." I find it incredibly frustrating, because I was just starting to get into a publication rhythm when my day job grabbed me by the neck and started shoving me repeatedly against the wall.

I am managing to get a few things done, they're just not comics.

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Site News: Delay in Publication

13 May 2010 - 10:16am — Christopher Wright

Now that I have a real computer to work on (my new laptop, refer to previous post) I've been spending the last two days copying and restoring files, downloading software, etc -- everything I need to do to get the machine fully loaded and ready to go. Unfortunately that has been taking up all my time, so I've missed two publication dates as a result. If I am very productive this evening I hope to have comics queued for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If I am closer to my normal level of productivity then the comic will resume publication on Monday.

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Misc: The Laptop Crisis Is Over

10 May 2010 - 9:33am — Christopher Wright

Oh Moore's Law. You might be running out of steam, but you still deliver.

As you know, because I have been whining about it constantly on this site, my old trusty laptop has been killing power cords in a particularly brutal fashion. I've been looking for a replacement, and have been forced to use an HP Mini 1000 Netbook in its place. This experience inspired the latest run of comics.

When I bought the old laptop I dropped about $1600 on it. It's a few years old but it still runs everything quite well. I assumed that I'd have to spend something similar in order to replace it.

I was, as it turns out, wrong. This weekend I found a more than serviceable replacement for $700.

Behold my new laptop.

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Misc: Laptop Updates

1 May 2010 - 5:37pm — Christopher Wright

After receiving a number of comments from readers that the circumstances described in my last post were not only annoying but potentially hazardous, I decided to take their advice and power down the laptop and switch to an alternative until a replacement could be found. Fortunately I had backed up all my data the night before, so it only took backing up a few more files (to bring my Help Desk archives up to date) before I shut the sucker down, thereby avoiding any potential fire hazards involving lithium-ion batteries.

That done, I needed to put serious thought into my stopgap replacement. I had two options:

1. My old laptop, an HP Pavilion, which is the laptop I had borrowed the power adapter from to use as a stopgap for my current laptop;

2. An HP Mini 1000 Netbook, which I'd won in a raffle.

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Misc: The Slow, Inevitable Death of My Laptop

1 May 2010 - 12:05pm — Christopher Wright

A few months ago I was minding my own business when my laptop started dinging in me. The battery was nearly depleted, it said, and the laptop was about to shut down. I sighed, thinking I'd somehow managed to kick out the power adapter yet again, and then I frowned when I noticed two things:

1. The power adapter was plugged in to the laptop.

2. The power adapter plug could not be removed from the laptop.

After a good five minutes of trying to work the thing out, I finally managed to remove the power adapter plug. The end of the plug had melted off. Not a good sign. There was also a smell of burning plastic coming from within the power adapter plug. Also not a good sign.

I didn't know what to do. I managed to find an old power adapter plug for an unused HP laptop that had almost the same power specifications, and lo and behold, it fit. It has been my stopgap plug ever since while I've tried to figure out what, exactly, to do.

I've bought no less than three replacement power adapters. One was the official power adapter that comes with the model laptop I ordered. It lasted all of two hours and then did exactly the same thing my original one did. I also ordered two "universal" power adapters that did the same thing in even less time. The only one that has managed to survive is the one for the old HP laptop, and it's starting to get quite warm.

So it's time to retire this laptop and find a replacement. It's not the most convenient time to go shopping -- we're not exactly flush with cash at the moment -- but I have located something that I think will work for me. So sometime late this month I'll be spending a few days cursing as I try to bend a new machine to my will.

Hopefully this one lasts until then.

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