Setup: I have an HP touch-screen laptop that came with the Vista operating system, but I don’t like it for a number of reasons. One is that it is a memory hog. 1 Gig of memory would be fine for another OS but it is the minimum you can get by with for Vista. You really need 2 Gigs to have enough memory for games and multiple apps. And, another complaint but nothing to do with Vista, if a laptop has 1 Gig preinstalled then it is most likely in the form of two 512 MByte sticks, using both memory slots. Cheaper that way, for them, but you have to replace both sticks to upgrade, i.e. can’t just add the extra.

Great deal: This week I ran across a great deal, $29 for 1 Gig of laptop memory. I ordered two sticks Monday and they arrived today. Over $200 worth of memory for about 60 bucks.

The idiot factor: This morning I unscrewed the memory-socket cover on the bottom of my newish laptop and guess what I saw plugged in, already plugged in. Not two 512 Meg sticks, but, wait; are you thinking “a 1 Gig stick and, so, Mr. Kada ordered one stick too many”? Well, no, not one too many! Mr. Kada ordered two sticks too many.

It must be my other laptop that could use some memory. Unfortunately, it uses the older “PC” style memory and what I just bought is “PC2″, so can’t use it there.

The birth of Mr. Kada: After thinking of myself as not exactly Mr. Know-it-all and can-do-it-all, i.e. Mr. Kada, I registered the domain name http://mrkada.com. I don’t know what I will do with it but registering it without plans for it seems exactly like the kind of thing a pretend Mr. Kada would do.