Turkey Dinner?

Well it's time to get some Turkey, or at least visit it. With the upcoming one week holiday we have decided that Istanbul (once Constantinople) will be our destination. I think we got a crappy deal, but would still kill anything we would get in the states. Two roundtrip flights (+ one baby) and 6 days in a hotel for around $1600. Not too bad huh?

So in the process of researching the trip I had this great idea to send out cards to my peeps saying "I've just made you a millionaire from my riches made in the Middle East" and a 1 Million Lyra note inside. But now I have discovered that as of January 2006 they have dropped 6 zeros from their notes. Plan destroyed. Bastards!

Lastly we missed out on Thanksgiving Day, but we will get all the Turkey we need. Hopefully it doesn't make us as sleepy as it does in the states.

MBP dead again.

So for the third time since getting my new 15" MacBook Pro I have
 sent the damn thing off for repair.  Again I had a failed HDD, and 
again I lost data.  I take backups, but I'm not religous about it.  I 
mean, who would think that a new HDD would die within 3 weeks?

Sigh

So I'm using KDE+FreeBSD for my desktop while I wait for the god awfully slow Apple service to come and fix my laptop.  

So why do I have all these failures with that MBP?  I suspect that it maybe a heat issue or bad grounding.  At home we pile our MacBooks on top of each other like a little naughty horizontal Apple dance.  Since my MBP loves to absorb heat maybe running Mariko's on top just produced too much heat and zapped it.  I don't know if this has been the cause for all 3 HDD failures, but I think it is for at least this one.