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I was wondering this the other day. Typically, when a person drinks some sort of liquid, it's either refrigerated or with ice (e.g. soda, water), or hot (e.g. coffee, tea). However, it seems like drinks that are around body temperature or a bit warmer are oddly unappealing. Is there a particular rationale behind this preference?

So, today it seems the technology ghosts are out for my blood. Sorry if this is a bit wordy but I'm trying to include as many details as possible to aid in a solution.

I'm home for thanksgiving, and so I haven't connected to my home router (Linksys WRT54GL )in a few months. I'm told it has been running perfectly well as of late. I've been using my netbook (ASUS eee 1015PEM) running Windows 7 perfectly fine for the past few days. The wireless card onboard had some issues somewhat recently but were resolved and has been in perfect working order.

Last night, I installed Linux Mint 11 on dual boot and got it up and working fine. Wireless is still perfectly functional at this point. It's