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I have a confession to make...

...Augustine's Confessions is finally here! Yay! Now the race of the dandelions may commence!

Albuquerque

While my "life update" (tm) is not quite as interesting as moving across the country or down a couple states, I will be doing something somewhat different this weekend than normal (e.g. attending weddings): I will be in Albuquerque attending my great aunt's 90th birthday. It should be fun and a chance to visit with a side of my family I haven't seen in over four years.

The plain ride will be as grand as always. Sadly without Augustine's confessions, a pox upon Amazon for being slow and a double pox upon Barnes & Noble for not carrying it!

Well, I must end this short post as sleep calls.

Peace be with you all!

New Compy

So, I've finally got my new compy all set up and working like a champ. It took me long enough but the best things are never easy right?

For the interested (or the bored), the specs:

• Raidmax Smilodon ATX-612WBP -- Pretty blue lights, windows into the guts of the machine etc.
•  AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz -- Dual core, 64-bit, 65 nm (so it takes even less power) etc.
• GIGABYTE GA-MA69G-S3H Socket AM2 AMD 690G ATX AMD Motherboard -- It's a motherboard, it's sweet
• Patriot 4GB(2 x 2GB) DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 -- Memory, lots and fast
• EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 -- This video card rocks my socks off. Plays the latest and greatest at full settings. w00t!
• HighPoint RocketRAID 2310 PCI Express x4 SATA II Controller Card RAID 0/1/5/10 -- The RAID controller. You plug in hard drives and it RAIDs them. The linux drivers are a pain to install though.
• Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive -- A nice fast (relatively) HD. And I have five of them (four are on the RAID array, one is my system drive).