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I know, I know, I should start a category about my mal-functioning Sony
\nVGNS150 notebook computer if I’m going to keep blogging about it.  This
\nought to be the last time; away again, it is, via shipping carton, to San Diego
\nwhere with any luck it’ll get fixed properly this time.  It’s been back from the first trip to
\nsunny southern Calif. since the end of November, zippy as ever until about a
\nweek ago.  Granted, when I look at the CNY weather forecast, sometimes my lids
\ndon’t brightly snap to open, either.  And that’s its problem–the monitor
\ninitializes irregularly.  Sometimes it kicks in, other times blank. 
\nBack on November 5<\/a>, I wrote that the "Timing couldn’t be worse." 
\nBut it could be equally heinous.  Come to think of it, this final final project
\nI’m buttoning down mentioned nothing about word-processing.  Ironically,
\nit’s an essay about the early years of computers and writing.  How was I
\nsupposed to know it wasn’t to be hand-written? We’ve only started using
\ncomputers as word-processors in recent years, after all.<\/p>\n

Resemblance between VAIO and ciao: omen? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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