Happy birthday Joss Whedon!

I'm a day late here in Australia. (Oops! Didn't look at my calendar til this morning.) But it is still technically the 23rd of June in USA where Joss lives.

So, thank you Joss, for some of the best motion pictures (TV and movies) and comicbooks made. So much new ground broken.

I love your motion pictures, especially their dialogue. Almost everybody knows of

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  
• Angel
  
• Firefly
  
• Serenity
  
• Dr Horrible
  
• Dollhouse
  
• and now Avengers (which I haven't seen yet)

but, in my opinion, where you really shine, far, far above others, is in comicbooks:

• Buffy (of course)
  
• Angel
  
• Tales of the Vampire
  
• Buffy Season Eight (and now Nine)
  
• Fray
  
• Serenity
  
• Astonishing X-Men (a superb story running over 25 issues)
  
• Sugar Shock (utterly lunatic hilarity!)
  
• Runaways (a truly brilliant season that made me ache for more)
  

More power to you Joss. Long may you reign!

fan fixed!

Yay! I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now. The fan on my computer has been giving me trouble for the past month or two. Suddenly this morning it started whining. I leave my computer on for months at a time, so it wasn't that it had just started up.

This constant loud noise sucked badly. Most people at this point rush out and buy another power supply, but firstly, I don't have a car and live more than half an hour's drive from the nearest computer shop, and secondly I don't really have the money to spare on a new power supply. Thirdly, the thought of replacing a whole power supply just because of a shoddy fan chafes at me.

So I pulled out the soldering iron, opened up the computer, removed the power supply, opened it up, pulled out the bad fan, and soldered in a new fan I just happened to have bought ages ago. Then I re-assembled the whole thing.

Ta da! Nice quiet computer. Yay!