Twelve years ago, Egghead Discount Software awarded me a $10,000 scholarship for an essay I wrote. While my parents paid my tuition at Berkeley, I used the $2,500 a year to buy hardware, which probably had as much or more of an impact on my future than the first years at Berkeley.

Yesterday Egghead announced that they're giving up and selling their assets to Fry's (which, incidentally, explains why Fry's dropped their bid to buy Outpost.com). A couple years ago Egghead closed up their brick-and-mortar shops and became an online-only vendor, and it looks like it didn't pan out.

Anyhow, I just want to say thanks, Egghead. You did some good, and you changed some lives.