Well, I got up this morning and found that my Window$ box had died. The power LED was on, but the rest of the machine was non-responsive. I think that the motherboard fried on the machine, as I’ve swapped out all the other suspect components, and found that they haven’t remedied the the problem (power supply, memory, CPU). So, I checked, and the motherboard (ASUS A7V8X) has a 3 year warranty (with almost a year left). I contacted ASUS tech support, and they said to get the board repaired/replaced, I needed to call the RMA department (different number). However, they are only open weekdays. So, I’ll have to wait and get the ball rolling on Monday. But, that’s alright; I still have three Linux boxes and a Mac to pick up the slack. 
In other news, my site (and BJU Bloggers) will be moving to a new hosting solution in the next few days, but we’re not anticipating much, if any, down time. We’re hoping that move will increase the overall security of the sites that we’re hosting, as recently, we’ve had a few security breaches that have not settled well with us.
On the acacdemic front, I’ve managed (with the help of God) to bring up my grades in most of my classes to an acceptable level, without sacrificing too much of my non-existant social life 
I’m still alive, although my Calculus grade could be classified as being vegitative
I do have a little bit of a quandry though (there’s always at least one hanging around in my head…). I found a nice site to check gas prices. It uses the Google Maps (now part of Google Local) API to map gas stations and their current (well, recent anyway) prices. I think this is one of the most innovative uses of Google Maps so far. But, I digress…I was just moving over the map, looking at the gas prices around my house, when I noticed that my sub-division (previously not seen on Google Maps, as it’s a newer one) was now visible on the Map.
I didn’t really think much about it until yesterday, when I saw an article on digg about how to use a Verizon LG phone to get your current location on the globe (via a hidden GPS menu on the phone). So, I followed the instructions on the site, and found my current latitude and longitude. Then, I just plugged those two numbers into Google Maps, and it plotted my current location. There was one problem though; my sub-division was not on the Google Map like it had been just a day or two earlier. I then remembered that I had seen it on the gas prices site.
If you’ll notice in the pictures below, the map taken from maps.google.com identify the provider of the map data to be “NAVTEQ.” However, on the map taken from MapGasPrices.com, the provider of the map data is identified to be “Tele Atlas.” This brings up my quandry: why would Google use different map provider for the people pulling from the Google Maps API, than Google Maps itself. It seems strange to me…
The Evidence:
