>I read today that Hitachi(?) shipped their first vertical laptop HD. Not vertical so much as they put it on it’s end, but they put the bits on the end. Normally bits lay down flat, bit to bit to bit, all around a hard drive platter. Jay sent me a musical “get vertical” cartoon about it a while back. I think it’s probably around in my archive somewhere .:takes a quick look:. [that sidetrack took 4 days, or maybe it was last weekend?]

>I wonder if these 3D Glasses have evolved at all. I had a pair way back with my ASUS GeForce 3 card, and they worked, but the performance wasn’t there. Now I wonder how they’ll look with some of these new games – like Oblivion. Might even get me to play Doom again. I’m currently waiting for Auto Assault beta to patch. You can get it here:I’m not sure if you need to set up an account to do it, I had to buy a preorder from Target (for $1) but it’s well worth it to give it a shot.…