Sometimes workplaces setup draconian firewalls which block urls, and don't let you get out on ports other than 80 and 443. As a developer this is a bit restrictive...

My desktop computer at home is a power hungry beast. It uses a 400W power supply, and has four fans that are constantly spinning. It was always on and made a bunch of noise. I decided to purchase an inexpensive replacement that would run silent and used minimal power.

I finished importing all of my previous roller entries into the drupal system. I ended up doing it manually.. I know, I know.. "aren't you some kind of programmer?" But by the time I created a proggie to extract and load the data for a one-time data transfer, I could have manually entered the data about ten times; it just didn't seem worth it. As Dennis Miller would say "I don't want to go off on a rant here but.."