Well, the laptop is now officially dead - LCD is broken, external monitor port non-working, unable to boot normally. However, I pulled out the hard drive and tried it in a machine at work, and it WORKED - so at least all my data is still intact.
Our esteemed president didn't impress me much at all with tonight's address. Especially with the whole we-need-better-standards-for-education-but-are-not-willing-to-pay-for-it stance. Real smart economics there. On the other side of the fence, Howard Dean seems to be self-destructing, so I now think it will come down to Kerry vs. Edwards (and Edwards seems to have great forward momentum at the moment, with charm and a political stance just centrist enough to draw some GOPers over to the dark side). We shall see...
We are relaunching our sites at work tomorrow, so it's liable to be a day from hell. I don't even go IN until 9:30 p.m., so I expect to spend most of the overnight shift cleaning up problems here and there. Joy!
And, finally, just so I can beat Emaroo to it, this item. Swedish furniture freaks across North Texas are rejoicing.