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I'm not doing that blog-every-day thing, but I enjoy any post topic that allows me to write in short, numbered bursts.

Things I Found Out When Reformatting My 7-Year-Old Desktop (which I did because it is the nuclear option against an extraordinarily pesky pop-up bug)

1. I had most of final season of Sopranos downloaded, and at around 350 megabytes a pop, that's a lot of wasted space.

2. Five years ago, my friend Adam renamed all my IE taskbar bookmarks. Silly names, but it made me laugh almost every time I noticed. I will miss those. "Washmypost.com" isn't that clever, but hey--five years!

3. I'm glad I don't collect porn, or I'd be really sad today. I did manage to save most of my mp3's, but I ran out of room on my laptop (!) so I'm sure some were lost in the glorious formatting fire.

4. Most of the stuff I saved over the years--literally about 98% of it--is utterly useless and wasn't worth saving for even a month, let alone seven years.

5. A reformatted computer may be a bit obsolete (it took almost an hour to download and update Windows, including restarts) but boy is it fast.

It's a brave new world! I'm basking in the sleek easy running of an unencumbered CPU!

Wheeee!

I'm not sure how reported this will be outside of California (since it was only a 5.6) but we had a good ol' quake this evening.

This was easily the biggest one I've felt. Even though it was based out of the San Jose area (roughly 30 minutes south) it shook the building for a good 10/15 noticeable seconds.

California: If The Fires Don't Get You, The Vibrations Will.