damn crappy hub

I finally remembered to grab a USB hub from home, so I can plug my thumb drives and hard drive in without crawling under my desk.

And, it's flaky as heck. Took 5 tries to get it to recognize the hub, and it's flaked and disconnected the drive twice so far.

They put a 3rd monitor on my desk about 9 months ago, and the only thing I've ever used it for was as a USB hub, but I don't like having to run a whole monitor just to act as a USB hub, so I was looking forward to getting a separate hub so I could totally disconnect that monitor.

Heck, I don't even really need TWO monitors. The 2nd one just runs the web browser.

I should probably just use a USB extension cable instead, since I don't actually need a hub. I think I'm going to throw this hub away though.

In the future, if I need to buy any USB hubs, I'll take a good look at reviews. Seems like there are a lot of totally crap hubs out there.

Audiobook finished

The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton

A very satisfying wrap-up to the void series. Quite an epic set, with 3 books plus the 2 commonwealth books which really need to be read before it, each in excess of 1000 pages. Not to mention the Night's Dawn trilogy, which is a separate universe. There's another, independent commonwealth book but I think I'm going to lay off this stuff for a while.