I have three days left in my cold, sterile, monochrome office at unnamed technology company.

Today, I'm dishing out my desktop boxes to anybody who wants them. The item of choice, apparently, is my three-year-old 19-inch flat CRT monitor. I've had three people so far come by to lay claim. But alas, there can be only one. The consolation prize is a 19-inch almost-flat CRT monitor. The third guy is just out of luck.

The two boxes are quite nice: 1.8 GHz and 2.4 GHz Pentium4s. The 1.8 has been a very faithful and resilient Linux box for the last three years. The 2.4 has been a flaky Windows 2000/XP box for the last two years. You do the math.

¶ 2:07 PM