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I've just discovered a nifty feature over at weather underground: an image gallery. There're some rather tasty photos there.

Yet another dark moment in my life is underway: I'm looking to get a cell phone. The usefulness of one, especially as I'm away from home so very often, has far outweighed both the cost and my laziness. Just like every other highly-popular device out there, one really should do research on what you get before you get it - there's way too much rubbish to otherwise.

At Java Wally's (heh, that's Andrew, John and me on the front page!) today, I saw someone with a remarkably small laptop. One could really describe it as an organizer on steroids (perhaps it was. It looked like the person who had it was running WinXP, though). Amber noticed as well and mentioned that laptop sizes are like cars, but inversely so: the smaller they are, the more the owner's trying to compensate for. If that's the case, then iPAQ and Zaurus users must really be unendowed. I personally think it's not how small it is, but how much the size deviates from a standard laptop. I've seen some really big ones which have just as much compensation power as leetle ones.

Maybe it's not size afterall; The more I look at modern computers (laptops and otherwise), the more I'm inclined to believe that the true measure is the number of blue LEDs on the computer. Compaqs, Sony's and HP's have a very large number of the LEDs, arguably to make up for the rather pathetic nature of the machine they're on. Toshiba laptops seem to have a high count of superfluous blue-photon-emitting regions. Toshiba is currently being sued due to very poor design on the heat-dissapation front - the bloody things'll burn you! It must be the lights - just think of all the neon underlights on ricers. I can't wait to see someone who does a casemod so that they have a whole matrix of dancing blue LEDs on the front... that's the kind of compensation you can't buy in stores.