To The One or Two People That Might Be Interested:
Last Sunday my computer bit the dust. It was only roughly 3 years old. I'm wondering if computers are designed like light bulbs with a planned short life expectancy just so companies can sell more computers. I went and bought a new one at Best Buy for $379, figuring that I could transfer my hard-drive to the computer with new guts. The shocker is/was that I found out that hard-drives which have been interchangeable, like for decades, have changed their connectors (or at least the one I got had different connectors). I suppose I could have looked around for some adapters, but I didn't bother to try. I just went and got a $34.00 power supply and put it in the computer that had died, and resurrected it. Returned the new one, and got my money back.
On a side note; I played with the new computer before taking it back, and I found out that I don't like some of the things that the Vista operating system does very much. Every time you go to make a change of any sort a pop-up window comes up and asks you if you REALLY want to make that change. That gets old FAST. Also, the system is pushing Yahoo for searching, it's like a permanent installation on your task bar. The pastel colors kind of wash out the viewing contrast.
Anyway, I'm back to internetting again. From the withdrawals I was going through, I would equate computer use to an addiction, or at the least, an habituation.