I’ve been up for something like 12 hours, but here I am Heathrow Airport in London, England.
I’m headed to CopenHagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is on an island off the coast of DK, It’s actually closer to Sweden than Denmark, but I guess those Danes are feisty, and own everything around them, too.
More later. Oh yeah, I charged up the batteries in my camera, I get over here, and NO-DICE! Damn. Hopefully I can figure that one out the first day in Copenhagen…
03/31: Got a new battery. Brought it back to the hotel room, plugged the charger into wall outlet, and the transformer cooked itself. I’m just no supposed to have pictures this vacation…
I would like to say “Thank You” to the nice lady who told me that my brake lights were not working, and for not hitting my car. Seems that Hyundai’s have crappy relays, my horn was on the fritz a few months ago. Hope it get fixed today.
I also found a nifty new fix for Win98 (my home computer is still running this obsolete OS, I know, I just can’t afford an upgrade, and none of my favorite games work under Linux).
Seems that after my 13 year old installed the new version of AIM, the machine would crash on login. Very frustrating. Grr. So a quick search on “windows crashes on login” led me to discover that booting to DOS and running “scanreg /restore”, picking a date to restore the registry from, and blammo, it’s fixed.
As anyone with a laptop and a wireless card knows, you can find wireless internet many places. What I have discovered is that because so many people just leave the “default” or “linksys” configuration on when they plug the wireless access point in, my neighborhood is bathed in free wireless. It has become a hotspot by default, through no organized thing, but through sheer stupidity and laziness.
I am posting this from the roof of the parking garage at work, where I have a choice of 2 unsecured and 4 secured networks to connect to, plus someone with a laptop in “Workgroup”. I should hack that machine just for kicks… Without using Netstumbler, I manage to be able to connect from just about everywhere I go.
Which is cool, hopefully I’ll post more because of it.
