"Hello? Are you alive? Where are you? Did you fall off the planet?"
Well as I am sure you realize, by looking at this site, that I am once again present on the virtual communication network that we call the internet. Over the last several months I have been wrestling with an "adverse computer situation," namely not having one that was worth anything more than a door stop (and a poor one at that). I had been working with a first generation MacBook CoreDuo, when suddenly it stopped working after a strange stint of shutting off at random times.