Jared W. Smith

This morning’s a (expletive) mess. I walked through a foot of water in some places to get to work today, which is better than the girl in the blue Ion who was driving and didn’t quite expect the rising waters at the corner of Coming and Morris this morning. The drainage at that intersection basically gave up, and was absolutely gushing water. It’s amazing how a little rain can screw everything up…

UPDATE: Charleston NWS is estimating two to five inches of rainfall, with another one to two inches expected. Ouch.

–J

Congratulations to the Atlanta Braves, who can have half their team decimated by injuries and STILL win the NL East!

SI

And now if only the Padres could clinch, preferably a game or two over .500…

After rebuilding Gibbons earlier this month, I’ve done a lot of work to improve it; with a radically faster motherboard, radically faster drives, it’s been great. But I still only have 512 MB of RAM.

After next payday I’m investigating obtaining 2 GB of DDR400 RAM for the machine. I’ll go dual-channel and everything with it; that should really be the final step in enhancing this box’s performance. I might also get a floppy drive with a black bezel. The white’s starting to annoy me now. :P I probably should look into USB ports for the front, as well, if not a full-fledged USB hub of some kind. I’m always running out of ports (I only have 4, which is a little lousy).