Doggone Dell Anyway

I like Dell's computer products and related gear. What I don't like is that their products appear to have a shelf life shorter than milk from the supermarket. I buy things from them, and three months later, the entire product line is discontinued, along with every accessory or part ever associated with that product line. And the successor product is incompatible with the old product. (Either the parts don't fit together or they use different software.) Sheesh.

SFSFC Meeting Results: Nobody Killed

Today's SFSFC board meeting was fairly uneventful. We met for three hours and took care of business. We're going to continue the SMOFCon Scholarships for another year -- more about that once we get the application form rebuilt and ready to post. We gave out a couple of small grants, and we authorized some committees to look into conventions we might want to run in the future. (We are not bidding for a Worldcon!)

I now have updated the SFSFC web site to reflect some of the news, and posted the approved minutes of the November board meetings, alas only in PDF until I can get to a computer that has Word 97 on it so I can produce a Word-to-HTML conversion that isn't full of the large amount of junk that Word 2002 adds to it.

Happy Birthday, dinogrl!

And a nice meal was had by us all at Kobe Japanese Restaurant in Santa Clara, although I'm sure we all could have done without the LOUD party going on in their banquet room.