Celebrity sighting

Our beary own chrisglass just got BoingBoing'd (although somewhat belatedly) with his great post about making a humane mousetrap.

(subwoofr, are you listening?)

Ouch! My electrolytics!

They hatched! From handy electrical components to adorable balls of toxic fluff in one spectacular bang. We love motherboard manufacturers who use cheap components, it makes my day so much more... err... interesting. Now I get to repair a motherboard and replace every single capacitor, and then check the other 3 computers that are using the same motherboard. Joy.

Ahhh. That's better.

As good as Better than new. Nice shiny new capacitors, and the machine booted straight up without complaint. Unsurprisingly, it's more stable than it has been for a month.