I am pretty big into Japanese style green tea and as swampfox said, brewing at a lower temperature and shorter time typically brings out the best flavors in the tea. A longer brew time and hotter water will bring out more of the bitterness. This refers more to loose leaf tea rather than the generall...
Alex, you have some nice shots there. I do agree with Matt, the last one is particularly nice. The second to last shot I also particularly like (the shadow in the front does distract, though).
Computron9000, I suppose I should have read the OP more thoroughly before posting. I didn't even catch, or perhaps it slipped my mind, that the bios was not showing through dvi. Thanks for pointing that out. If that is the case, then it seems, more than likely, that it is hardware related.
I seem to remember this happening when I last upgraded my computer. I believe what was happening was the vga was using the primary monitor while the dvi was defaulting to a nonexistent secondary monitor. There should be an option in the control panel to allow the dvi to default to the correct monito...