As mentioned in my last blog post, the 1GB SODIMM memory on my laptop died, leaving me with 256MB of memory.
Yesterday evening, as I went past Orem en route to the 2009 Utah Open Source Conference I stopped at the Best Buy there. They had what I needed, for $69.43 (tax included). Right there in the parking lot, I opened up my laptop, put the new RAM in, fired up the beastie, and ran Memtest86+. Everything looked good, so I drove off. (Thereby redefining the term Field Replaceable Unit [FRU]. :-)