Thoughts on a new laptop

1) 802.11 isn't that useful at home if you don't have a TV (why else move the laptop)?

2) These unassuming and brief instructions for installing "LaTeX, Emacs, etc for your PC" kick ass. (Thanks, graham!)

3) Tech support for the HP Bluetooth Deskjet 995c has been outsourced to India, where they answer the phone cheerfully, thank you for your patience, but still can't solve your problem.

4) Putty is my new Telnet/SSH client. But of course I never use telnet. Nor should you. Once Anil screamed "STOP!" at me just as I was about to use it.

5) I'd forgotted M-x latex-mode. Nice to meet him again. It's been a few years.

6) Thumbnails of most of my ever-burgeoning collection of digital photos and scanned images seem to be available here, at Google. Why then do I struggle to archive them myself? Somehow this question reminded me of the book of Job. I had a Bible handy and found this at the end of Chapter 5, just as more JPGs and MOVs were being whisked off to some appropriate archive:

You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing. You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth. You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season. Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good.