I was appalled to read this article about a teenager that left her 18-month old niece in a car here in the Valley, where the average temp. in August is about 93. People like this should be put away for life.

Just upgraded to a new Sanyo RL-4920. It rocks. Of course, my old phone was a Sanyo SCP-4700 (”ancient” in the world of cell phones), so my opinion may be a bit skewed by anything that has a color screen.

I wish I would have found this website about five years ago:

http://www.seatguru.com

Saw them this past weekend here in Harlingen, TX. Good Texas Roadhouse Blues.

Rob Roy Parnell Website

I received a new “corporate” Toshiba M200 laptop a few weeks ago as a lease replacement of my old “corporate” Dell C400. On 8/23/2004, I finally got around to installing software for my “corporate” Brother 3100C MFC. The install went fine, but of course it annoyingly requires a reboot for the software and driver to be fully active. Reminding me of Windows 95, XP hangs when trying to shutdown (which I have become accustomed to). So, I power off the laptop manually (as usual). When I start up again, XP abruptly comes to the “Windows XP startup was interrupted…” menu, with several starting options. No matter which one I pick, a BSOD blips for a split second and the machine immediately reboots. After BSODing for ten minutes, I figure out the BSOD says something like ‘registry failure’. Great. Since the Toshiba M200 does not have any other built-in device to boot off of (unless there is a way to boot off of an SD (which there probably is)), I was SOL. So I schlepped my brand-new dead M200 back to the “corporate” laptop dept. via FedEx for them to fix. If I could’ve gotten away with it, I just would have loaded Red Hat on it and life would be good. Maybe next time.