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So for the past week or so I haven't been able to feed my addiction of checking my emails every 30 seconds. Well, alright, 60. teehee.

Anyhow, my old machine died - power supply going, taking the motherboard with it. The power supply connection to the motherboard had 4 pins (and corresponding points on the motherboard) wrecked, plastic melted away, etc. More info later. Maybe, if I have time - I've got heaps of other things to blog about. Anyhow. Took a fair bit of today (public holiday - Ekka) to get it going - heaps and heaps (~100 excluding the service pack) of patchs for Windows.

Ended up getting new box, power supply, motherboard, CPU, RAM. Kept hard drives (but system partition was wiped to reinstall Windows), kept peripherals and CD / DVD drives. I think that I could have gotten away with not reinstalling windows - but my machine was getting slow and bloated full of stuff - a clean start was in order.

List of things still to sort out:
* Lettering of drives (changing I: to K: - important for Carbonite).
* Video screen refresh rate
* Video funnyness
* RSS Feeds
* Some missing programs still to be installed
* Other programs to be sorted out (tweaked) (Firefox, etc)
* And now doubt more stuff that I haven't realised about yet.

On the upside, I got a USB Bluetooth adaptor - I can synchronise my phone with the computer without plugging anything in, etc. Nifty.

Now, quiz for the day. What did I call the new machine?... other things of mine get geographical names from the Americas... this is elevated water.