Time to go home.

• NotN: 50% of Britons don’t believe in evolution, and it doesn’t believe in them; Snow, apparently. Photo: the snow hates you.

Freda loved the snow yesterday. She cried when she had to come in. nyecamden visited too.

Today (Tuesday) is redcountess's seventh birthday (again). We are poor but loving, so I haven't got her present yet. I did, however, spend yesterday evening and this evening transplanting the screen from purplecthulhu's dead 550MHz TiBook to her 1GHz TiBook, using the guides from PowerBook Medic. It all went a bit Haynes and I had to reverse-engineer just what these two completely undocumented cables did, not to mention the helpful note that every screw in the thing except two is a T-8 Torx, and never mind they're all of different lengths and shaft diameters. Bring me the head of the psychotic fuckwit who designed this thing. Apple: beautiful hardware on the outside ... just never, ever look in the box.

It's been running 45 minutes now and hasn't melted. Call me Victor von Frankenbook. I was a bit worried about the heatsink connection. We'll see how it goes.

I am writing this from my Evo N410c which I let Liz put Windows on. Ew. I'm using Chrome, which is a very nice browser. There appear to be rather a lot of advertisements on this "web" thing you people use, though.

You get to keep both pieces.

• Photo: dear internet: stop it. stop it now.

My laptop's Winders broke and the fix is "wipe and reinstall." So the Leengux partition is now Kubuntu 9.04 alpha 3. It hasn't gotten past that because it refuses to resolve DNS in apt. Or in Firefox — I'm writing this from Konqueror. Which, you know, isn't bad, it's just not Firefox. And takes its colours from the Obsidian theme I'm using. ping and nslookup resolve fine. Pinging the name before apt-get didn't work. Reboot and using Ethernet instead of wifi didn't work. Any ideas?

(What happy-ass Linux resolution rubbish is going on? I would guess it's some apps using one set of resolution libs and others using another. Someone here must have some idea what these would be.)

The Frankenbook is still alive and well. Not sure it burns CDs or DVDs properly. The hinges (whence the display cable, wifi and inverter) are getting unpleasantly warm.

Update: Actually, Konqueror is probably a good browser for someone but it's giving me the massive shits. If this keeps up I may be forced to resort to W*nd*ws.