Black Hole of Time

Computers are a black hole of time.

I can't tell you how many weekends and evenings have just vanished from my life because of computers. Today for instance, the screen saver on my wifes new HP laptop has been non-functional for over a month now. After scouring the HP support forums with no luck, I tried a simple Yahoo! search for "Vista Screen Saver does not work". The search yielded a large number of results and the very first link in the results page had the answer - the wireless mouse was keeping the screen saver from coming on. Well known issue on the forums, but not on HP's site :-)

Then off to the basement office to work on this new Fedora 8 laptop I loaded a few weeks back. Moving files from the Windows machines could not be easier, but not having A/V on the Linux OS makes me nervous. I know viruses exist for Linux, but I've yet to find a good open source A/V solution.

All this in 3 plus hours. Thus, 'computers are a black hole of time'.

Off to have a nice beer of some sort...