Last week, my desktop computer finally decided to play up again, after 2 years of trouble-free service. This time, it’s my motherboard again, or I hope so (since I bid on another second-hand Asus Striker Mainboard on eBay) to resurrect the computer.

It might have made more sense to just buy a new desktop computer and try to restore my RAID arrays, which is pretty much impossible if the RAID controller isn’t the same as your current board.

No wonder NVIDIA don’t make any more motherboard chipsets, since their partners keep on messing up and then wondering why Intel won’t grant them another licence to mess around with their CPUs (http://www.intelsinsides.com/page/home.html)

A fun experience from my days back at the big NV was when we had to fly out 5am from London Heathrow to Paris for the big annual marketing meeting. At this said meeting, we sat from 9am all the way to 11pm topped with a near darkness ride through the Champs-Élysées and some meagre French food. To all my previous colleagues from the Bangalore marketing team, I felt really sorry that when asking for a vegetarian food option, the waiter cheekily came up with the answer ‘Wee have French Fries’.

Close to my current office at Line Industries, at least they have a proper French bistro called L’eau a la bouche, where you can have a massive selection of hearty meats/cheeses/olives etc. What you shouldn’t try is counting on fast service, a toasted baguette will set you back by at least 30 minutes, a marvelous achievement considering that there are at least 10 headless chicken walking around the store.