Hey Bartender

I'm still not dead yet!

See, there are two ways you can approach this whole blog thing. Way 1 is to write something every day or thereabouts regardless of whether you have anything to say or not. Way 2 is just to write something whenever the mood strikes you.

Way 1 probably gets you more readers, but Way 2 produces better articles. Given that there are already too many bloggers gassing on about too many things, I have chosen Way 2.

Besides, I'm lazy.

So: what vital concern moved me to get off my virtual duff and compose this entry? Is it a dire new threat to the Internet like the latest attack by the "Storm" worm? A cool new technology like the Linux-based iPhone killer? An egregious bit of stupidity like the Wall Street Journal's "Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You" article (a.k.a. "How to Get Yourself Fired and Break the Law in Ten Easy Lessons")?

Nah, none of the above. The Storm worm is just an old threat in a new package, Linux has a long way to go to match iPhone's cachet, and intellectual dishonesty is just business as usual at the Journal.

What got me to finally update this blog is the demonstration, by the folks over at Tom's Hardware, of the value of beer (Molson Canadian, to be exact) as a CPU coolant. According to their test protocol (which, in all fairness, seems to have been devised after imbibing some of the coolant), the only thing that out-performs a brewski is SilverStone Thermal Fluid - and then only by a fraction of a degree.

There's no mention of how Silverstone performs against Molson in a taste test, alas.

Such are the thoughts of an IT geek's fevered brain after three weeks of a killer heat wave.