Mah knees, gramma! May 10, 2009
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Ok, so it’s official, I’m getting old. I (well, tried t0) ran 4kms today as part of our nationally held mother’s day run for breast cancer research. I noticed my knees were getting a bit tetchy towards the end of the “run” and now, some 12 hours later, I’m a lame duck!
It’s the same sort of pain I got once when we started doing longer bike rides (I’ve got an old blog about that hiding somewhere on the interweb) and it *#% hurts. We’ll see what tomorrow brings… no DOMS, but plenty of OMKH (ow my knees hurt) 
There’s only one thing for it, really…. MORE RUNNING! We’ll see how that goes…
Another favourite… May 9, 2009
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“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana”
Pulling out of thumbs May 9, 2009
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Well, a few days ago I resolved to devote all my spare time to writing my thesis. This week has been pretty good! Look what I wrote just now…
“Similarly, the shear-dependent production of prostacyclin is also independent of the glycocalyx (Hecker M 1993) (Tarbell JM 2008), highlighting the diverse and independent pathways for transduction of flow related shear forces.”
If I write one sentence a day just like that, then I’ll finish my PhD in what, 12 years? Maybe I’ll have to step up the pace a little…
Slack, as usual May 7, 2009
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Wow, it’s totally been 2 years since I posted anything to this blog! I’m amazed WordPress didn’t delete it…
A friend reminded me I actually have a blog today, so I thought I’d log in and write something. Well, today I decided to tear down my Dell D600 laptop and see why the damn thing was heating up so much. I’ve had it for 5 years now, so my chief suspect was dust.
After finding a handy disassembly guide at http://2xod.com/articles/Dell Latitude D600 Disassembly I gave up on trying to remove the bottom half of the case and tackled it from the top. Sure enough, there was a tell-tale trail of dust clogging up the gap between the heatsink / exhaust fan duct and the edge of the WLAN card housing. I gave it a bit of a tug, and a little dust came out. I hooked in there with a screwdriver, and a bit more dust came out. I then pulled on a tendril of thick looking dust, and this came out:
Dust gremlin!
That might not look like much, but it’s about the same size as the exhaust fan duct when mashed together. Nice!
So, I’m typing this post on the newly de-dusted lappie, and hey presto, it’s running alot cooler, faster, etc etc. Maybe I’ll keep it for a bit longer yet
