o/~ Forget Norway, Kenyaaaaa...

Having finally had enough of sitting around at home all day every day, I'm off to Norway for two weeks. Hooray for a change of scenery.

ION, my laptop has decided, after 3 and a half years of faithful service, to break. I'm fairly sure it's a GFX card hardware problem; I'm getting funky repeating patterns all over my screen. It happens right from the moment the 'puter is booted, so it's not software. The strange thing is that it seems to be pressure sensitive: if I flex the upper right corner of my laptop, the patterns change, and sometimes disappear. Possibly a loose connection, then. It *may* be that the memory used as a video buffer is corrupt somehow (although, I don't know why that would be pressure sensitive); is it possible to change the default memory allocation to test that theory?

Anyway. Driving lesson tomorrow followed by coach to London. Then a flight to Norway on Wednesday. Hooray.

And still no word from Google.