Back from the dead

Why no blogs for the last week? Well, I'm an idiot. I applied Windows XP SP2, and my computer blue-screened constantly on startup. On the blue screen, it said "check your BIOS", and I thought well, why not? So I flashed a new BIOS image and, of course, it all failed horribly and my computer turned into a doorstop. So much for the ASUS "crashproof" BIOS (if this happens, it's supposed to detect there's a problem, and re-flash the chip with a working backup image).

Anyway, I'm back again, thanks to the good offices of these folks, who do nothing other than flash new BIOS chips. And I've got a sparkly new install of XP SP2. Well, I say "sparkly", but I seem to be at Cruft Force 3 already.