One thing I forgot to mention yesterday – something which is probably so unimportant that it does not even need to be written about. Yesterday I could not find my glasses when I woke up. Normally they are on my bedside table. Occasionally they are not there – either on the floor or on my matress. But they were not in any of those places yesterday. Hmm. Where could they be? They turned up in the top draw of the bedside table. Work that one out. I certainly cannot.

I have found some prices for Laptop HDD’s – They come out at about $200 for an 80 GByte HDD. So I will order one today, and I should get it tomorrow I would guess. Or I might just ring up a few places and see if anywhere local actually has one. There should be somewhere local. But I don’t want to waste time searching, and then collecting so mail order may be better. We will have to see. Then again the time spent buying the HDD pales into insignificance to the effort required to move about 80 programs to the new computer.

The New York Times has an article about how Dartmouth College has installed 1400 wireless access points using 802.11b and 802.11g. In order to view the short article you need to register for free with the NYT. Anyway, the important thing about this story is the person who has been doing all this work is Brad Noblet, Dartmouth’s director of technical services. Brad is a fellow board member of TAPR, and a friend. Back in 2002 he and I presented papers at the same conference on the subject of 802.11.