They must have been bored

I don't know what would inspire anyone to bestow knighthood upon a penguin. Maybe the Norwegian royal family thought it'd be a good way to get attention. Whatever the reason, it highlights the fairly absurd pastimes that Europe's now-ceremonial royalty undertake.

Where hath the blogs gone?

Back in the day, it was the rad thing to have a blog where you'd post your thoughts about whatever the hell you wanted (usually your life), all with the wonderful anonymity of a screen name...which didn't matter because the only ones who read your blog were people who knew you to begin with. Anyways, I've noted that the few friends of mine from the good 'ole hometown have blogged significantly less - and in some instances, stopped completely - since they've began their post-graduation obligations. I've always enjoyed reading even the pithiest of entries, as it helped me to keep up with how people were doing...even if I couldn't keep in touch with them on any sort of regular basis. Nowadays...not so much. Not that I should be complaining, as my productivity has dropped off markedly since I began work myself.

Impending doom?

I'm getting somewhat of a bad feeling about my computer. It's been functioning a bit slower as of late, and some oddities have developed. Most notably, my audio becomes scratchy occasionally after reviving the computer from sleep mode. In general, response time has become somewhat halted; I'm not sure if that's due to computer age or to Windows Vista suddenly hogging more memory than usual. To be fair, the majority of components in my computer are more than two years old, with my sound card being even older (it was a legacy carryover from my previous desktop, which survived three years) and my backup internal hard drive and the graphics card being the only newer pieces.

All in all, though, it may be time to do an overhaul sometime in the winter...for the first time in a long time, I looked at computer parts and pondered how a new configuration would look. While I do enjoy my case a great deal, not all of the fans works, and I think it'd be better to go with a case that had more airflow (read: bigger fans) or had water cooling (probably not, as it's beyond my technical expertise and comfort level to set it up on my own). It's all fun thoughts...for the time being...