Archive for October, 2004

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

How Not to Unlock a Car Door

Today started out well enough, got up nice and early, got showered, went to my physical therapy appointment, didn’t pass out, got a corn muffin and some OJ on my way to work. Then I sat in my car eating my corn muffin talking to the just waking up karnil. Finished my muffin, said goodbye, [...]

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Wednesday, October 13th, 2004

Six Degrees of Voting

Go here. Sign up. Watch the cool flash animation as you get more people to sign up. It’s kindof spiffy.

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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004

Fixed Laptop Hinge

With the help of Mark at work, my laptop is now fixed again! We took apart the screen to find that Sony made the panel in such a way that all the screws for the hinge went through the hinge and LCD assembly, and into the plastic backing. With the plastic broken, there was nothing [...]

3 Comments » - Posted in Laptop by Chip

Saturday, October 2nd, 2004

Broken Laptop Hinge

Just as I’m starting to feel better with my spine and all, my laptop decided to take a turn for the worst. The left hinge between the base and the LCD panel had started breaking a few months back, part of the plastic casing had cracked and fallen off. Today the remaining piece broke, so [...]

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