Sporadic (spastic?) update number one: Computer Issues

quiet_ness, I feel your pain. My computer has crashed on me five or six times in the span of this evening. That's one of the reasons that these entries are going to be so short :p (Oh great and wise LiveJournal, bless me with your autosaving powers!)

Fortunately I recently got networking up and running on the distribution of Ubuntu Linux that I also happen to have installed on this computer, and it seems like it is much more stable. Hopefully no more with the unwanted crashes this evening...

( Details of the computer woes, for those who have an interest in such things )

Sporadic (spastic) update number two: Stocks

I don't think stocks are what I originally planned on posting about here, but I've been meaning to write something about them for a few days now so this is as good a time as any.

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