Technorati; my new laptop!

(Oh noes!  It's been 26 days since my last post.  Pharyngula promises to delete blogs that don't post in a month.)

What's the deal with Technorati?  My blog is now ranked 1,446,383 with authority 3 (about the same as rabitguy), while giza is ranked 142,439 with authority 33.  Pharyngula's actual blog is ranked 131 with authority 301, but Technorati instead says I'm linked from Pharyngula's old blog, whose authority has fallen to 315.  Why doesn't somebody fix these things?

So my ThinkPad 600E has been getting worse and worse.  Now one of the RAM slots doesn't work.  I can't access more than 96 MB of RAM, which really isn't enough for the operating systems of today.  So I got a ThinkPad T23 from Ebay.  Nice!  But it took me over two weeks to get Debian "Etch" Linux working properly on it.  I'm less than impressed with the polish on that distro.  I wrote 14 pages of technobabble (decorated with nekkid pictures of computer parts) about what I had to do to make it work, but it's posted to the web under my RL name so I won't link to it from here but merely crosspost some of the photos.

( Nekkid computer parts )

(Replacement public post)

Congratulations, cassander42!  He was the first respondent to inform me that it is possible to use Google on some text from my previous post to figure out my Real Name™.  So that post is now friends-locked.

Oh noes!  It's *once again* 26 days since my last public post and Pharyngula might *still* drop me from his blogroll!  So now what do I talk about?

This weekend my family is participating for the first time in a neighborhood-wide yard sale.  We're madly going around the house, trying to find stuff we can do without.  So far the garage is about ⅓ full and we stil have 2-3 rooms left to evaluate.  Hopefully there won't be any hurricanes this week because I can't put the car away right now.

I bought myself a used laptop computer!  It has a working microphone, but whistling into it doesn't sound so hot.  I still owe porsupah a recording of my throat-singing, which will take a while because I'm 20 years out of practice!

I have another two or three months to get through before I hear back from Canada on whether they'll let us in.  Recently yet another financial analyst joined the crowd of people who say the value of the US dollar is going to fall precipitously sometime in 2008.  I have no way to evaluate their claims, which center around Southeast Asian central banks and exactly how willing they will be to continue funding Bush's madness in the Middle East.  I'd like to move my money into Loonies (Canada has no foreign debt), but I can't justify it if I don't even know whether I'll ever be allowed to leave the Soviet States of America.