View From the Bushes

I got my second LCD at work today, so I was finally able to install my new video card and bask in the convenience of two monitors. I've got to say overall I'm not that impressed by the LCDs; I actually think that with the exception of the form factor that a CRT is better, but having two monitors is da bomb! Getting two monitors actually caused quite an upheaval in terms of office politics, but fortunately it died down enough to not derail the plans.

Blizzard finally came out with the long awaited content patch. Feature-wise it was reasonably cool, but implementation-wise it was a nightmare... Normally they have a downtime between 6 am - 10 am Pacific every Tuesday. Yesterday they started an hour early (no big deal) but went maybe twelve hours over. It's hard to say, because there was intermittent availability in there, but mosty everything was completely FUBAR, but the truly annoying thing was not the game servers being down, but the website and the forums were completely hosed as well, so there was no way to get any kind of information on whether they even knew what the problem was...

In any case, turning back to New Scientist we discover that a classic math problem has just been cracked. It's not as glamorous as Fermet's last theorem, but it's still pretty cool.

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