== Bernie's brain backup for January 2008 ==

=== Wed 2st ===

==== Haiku Laptop ====

Today we shipped our machine affected by dlo#5575 (touchpad mostly unfunctional)
to Japan for further inspection by ALPS.  Just before closing up the plastic case,
I've left inside a little fortune cookie for them:

HaikuXoSmall.jpg

If you're wondering what it means, it's a piece of japanese poetry called a HaikuPoem.
Google for it.

=== Tue 1st ===

==== Trip to Walden Pond ====

This really happened on Monday 31st Dec, but who'd go read last year's blog entry now?

So, Adam, Arjun and myself went to this [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_Pond|Walden Pond]]
place, where the famous American poet [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau|Thoreau]]
lived in complete isolation for 2 years in a cabin made of wood.

[[WaldenPond1Small.jpg|Arjun (left) and Me (guess who?)]]

On this very nice lake, I stupdily tried to run on the ice and fell badly, hitting my jaw
and cheek on the hard ice.  Little cut, big bump... no permanent consequences.  Maybe I
should consider a health insurance?

[[WaldenPond2Small.jpg|Me (the really crazy one) and Adam (the really worried one)]]
[[ThoreauCabinSmall.jpg|The there of us in the site of Thoreau's cabin]]