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Well, life can be an inconvenient bitch sometimes, that’s for sure. My lack of recent posts, bringing news of my non-exciting adventures on backshift, is explained by the most ridiculous catastrophe.

For all of the billions of dollars invested in computer technology, every machine has one fatal .Achilles’ heel, something so simple that it barely registers as a technology in its own right.

And that, my friends, is the need for electricity. Power. Juice. This elan vital of the modern day has been denied me by the malfunction of my laptop’s power adaptor. Although it usually happily eats AC power at sixty hertz and spits it back out as 15 volts of DC power at five amps, it is not proving my laptop with 15 volts of AC power at 1 hertz. For those of you who know nothing about this sort of stuff, don’t feel bad, it’s not important. Basically, AC power oscillates back and forth (from positive to negative and back again) about 60 times a second, whereas DC power stays at a particular strength. My power adaptor is not getting rid of all of these oscillations.

The point is, my beloved Pixel is now mired in a coma, and sadly, my new layout, which was only a few minutes from completion, is trapped somewhere within her unconscious, while she dreams electric dreams of digital sheep and I anxiously await a Purolator truck. Until my new power adaptor arrives tomorrow (free overnight delivery, score — $102 for a piece of black plastic with some coils of wire in it, boo), I am unfortunately offline. Life without Pixel sucks.

Update: Behold the new design. This one has been a long time coming — I generally do a new layout every two months, but it’s been three since I had a new one. The February 2004 layout was worth the wait, in my opinion. Although I hadn’t planned on putting it up just now, things change. Tada!