Monday, January 5. 2009

Exploding Laptops at Work Today

I haven't posted in a while because I've been spending time with my new daughter. My family traveled to China to adopt her a couple months ago (see http://www.code-complete.com/serendipity/). But today at work, I got to witness the famous exploding Laptop phenomenon first hand. I wish I had a photo of the thing while it was flaming, but my moto phone seems to have deleted it. Anyway, this freaking Dell inspiron 6000 literally burst into flames on someone's desk. It was scary, but funny at the same time. Luckily, no one was hurt. Here's the aftermath:



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