So my NEC CRT monitor finally died.



At first, it would just take awhile to come on when I switched on the power. It'd make a rapid ticking sound, then the ticking would gradually slow down and become uneven. Eventually it would "catch" and the screen would come on. Over the span of about a week, the delay between switching on the power and having the display come on went from minutes to over an hour. Then, finally, there came the day when it just kept ticking and didn't power on at all.



That monitor lasted nearly nine years to the day. (The Newegg receipt is from October of 2005.) I'm going to miss it. Goodnight, sweet prince.



Received a replacement monitor today courtesy of a generous soul who commissioned some work from me. It's an Asus LCD, 21.5". It's definitely a change from my old monitor. The colors seem a touch washed out by comparison, and the blacks aren't as deep, but I think that's just an LCD thing in general. The difference isn't huge, but I'll probably have to mess with the calibration some. Having all this extra screen space is going to take some getting used to. I set the desktop resolution to my new monitor's native res, and now all my desktop icons are huddled in the upper right-hand corner, like they're afraid of all the empty space surrounding them. Maybe they'll stop feeling timid and start venturing out to fill the rest of the screen soon.



That being the case, I really haven't been keeping up on the thread over the last couple of days, outside of checking in on mobile a couple of times. Any big news go down while I was away?