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Well, Pentagon city last night was a complete bust. I don't know if I got there too late (7:15 ish, with the meeting supposed to start at 6...), or if nobody else showed up because of the storm, but there was nary a sign of a 2600 meeting there as far as I could tell, and I even went so far as to go over to the Borders, buy the 2600 magazine, then come back to the food court, sit in front of Au Bon Pain, and read it for a while to see if it would draw any attention. No luck. I will probably try again next month.

Food Question

Ok, first off I know Kraft is evil, most of their products are GMO, etc etc. That aside, I'm looking for a particular one of their products in the DC metro area: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Topping. It comes in a small blue shaker, and is basically grated american cheese, similar to the grated parmesan or romano cheese you may use with italian food. Does anyone know where I might find it?

Edit: recommendations of substantially similar non-Kraft products are also welcome.

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Upon trying to burn my new copy of Windows Vista to dvd, I was very disappointed to learn that its checksum did not match the file I was supposed to have downloaded. Almost three gigabytes, wasted. All for nothing. Then I got a bright idea... I fired up azureus, surfed around for a torrent reputing to be it, and initiated a download. After a few moments, I stopped the download and deleted the data file, replacing it with the file I had downloaded. Then, I forced a recheck of the file, bringing the download up to 99.8%. Then I restarted the download and let it go on its own for several hours. It had downloaded, and was in fact seeding when I came back to it. This time the checksums matched perfectly. And now, I am burning it. Wish me luck.

Edit: Well, it doesn't look like I am going to be lucky... I get a blue screen not long after I try to boot from the dvd. It's possible it's simply my system, I'm trying to run it on an older box that is near the limit of what Vista is supposed to be compatable with. It may easily be on the wrong side of that limit. I'll save the disk and give it a try if I ever get a better system to work with. (Still drooling over the new Intel macbooks ;-))