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I’ve been having trouble lately with my desktop crashing when I’m playing WoW. It always happens after I’ve been playing for a while, but it doesn’t matter how long my computer was on before I started up WoW. That and the fact that it produces a colorful pattern on both monitors led me to blame my video card. Updating the drivers had no effect, so now that it happened on the weekend when I wasn’t really doing anything I decided to dust the case and pull the video card.

My case isn’t oversized (at least this one isn’t) so it’s not easy to get the video card in and out, but I’m glad I went to the trouble. I also extracted a large amount of dust from the fans that were readily accessible. It’s now cleaned out as well as I could manage without taking the cooler off or getting a can of compressed air, but there’s no way of telling if that worked without spending a lot of time stressing it, so I guess I’ll go back to playing WoW.

I finally finished restickering the 7-cube. The picture is shortly before I finished, I just liked how that looked.

I then scrambled it (using the 100 move scramble generated by my timer) and timed a solve.

63:15.52 was a ridiculously long time for a single solve, but at least twenty minutes of that was spent attempting to finish the last pair of 5×5 center grids. I still haven’t managed to come up with algorithms for that for the 7. On the 5 I can get it within a few moves (also mainly guesses), but that only has a 3×3 grid so it’s much more limited on what pieces can be out of place.

Apparently my GMail account was accessed from South Korea several days ago. Time to change passwords on everything that linked to that email account…

It’s nice that GMail flags unusual activity (and tells you about it highlighted in red at the top of the email page when you log in), but I’d rather have an email sent to me so I get it on my phone instead of having to log in through a browser.

I also like that my bank requires verification when accessed from a new computer even with the correct password (it sends a text or calls the phone number already associated with the account). On the other hand, online access to my bank currently seems to be down.