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Wednesday, May 22, 2002 |
 Shoot. I just bought a new HP laptop, the zt1175. It has 1.4 GHz and 30 Gb of hard-drive space. Nice. But it only has 256 Mb of memory. So, naturally, I want to upgrade it. I do a little research and can't find the manufacturer of the memory. I call HP and talk with them for an hour and they can't find it either (note: they are using Google to find anwers to customer service problems). I do more research and find what looks to be an appropriate module and buy it. It finally arrives nearly a month later. It doesn't fit. This is very close to my: I can't get Dell to sell me a $3,400 desktop computer story.
7:37:08 PM 
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The Economist. India's Prime Minister rallies the troops at the border with Pakistan and calls for a "decisive battle." Hey! The idea that the deaths of a couple hundred people at the hands of Pakistani funded terrorists could lead to nuclear war is absolutely insane.
7:26:56 PM
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NYT. Chandra Levy's remains found in Washington park. I lived near DuPont Circle (where Chandra lived) for a while, and it is one dangerous place (somehow, not for me). Three guys I know where walking along a street near DuPont when a carload of guys, with a shotgun and a couple of pistols, pulled up and told them to go for a ride. They did (I personally wouldn't go under any circumstances). A shotgun in the mouth later and lots of heated exchanges, they were dropped of in NE Washington. I suspect, that even though Condit is a scumbag, the scenario above is more likely. She was taken and killed by a random drive by gang.
7:14:11 PM
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Google to the rescue. Morton Popcorn Salt. Found a couple of places to buy it online.
7:03:25 PM
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We were talking about the availability of the finer foods tonight over dinner. Flat hotdog buns (you know, the ones you can brown up on the grille) aren't available in the west (only in NE). Also missing: Popcorn salt. The coarse grained salt that makes home popped popcorn taste so good. This has dropped off the market entirely. It's been six months since we have seen it available. If you don't know what I am talking about, you are missing the finer elements of American gastronomy.
6:58:16 PM
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Fortune. Details of the pheonix memo on terrorists training to be pilots. Hey, I went to pilot training with a guy form Saudi Arabia and one from Kuwait, they couldn't land a plane either (this isn't meant as an ethnic slam, but rather the countries in question didn't have a meritocracy in place that sent the best people -- one guy got a Rolls Royce upon graduation from his father, two years after he started the one year program).
4:53:46 PM
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Business Week. Apple snubs third party developers.
>>>I raise the question now because some small developers are crying foul. They're accusing Apple of freely copying third-party programmers' innovations into its own software. "Apple should work with independent developers, rather than taking everything in the house," Rob McNair-Huff, publisher of the popular Mac Net Journal Web site, wrote recently.<<<
7:18:27 AM
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