Testing July 10, 2008
Okay, so I’m just trying this out to see if it works. If this were an actual post, there would be actual content. And be 100% sarcasam free!
Sunday afternoon, trying not to think about Monday December 12, 2004
Sorry the posting has been light over the past few days. I’m having issues with the computer fan, and I’m afraid to overtax it and cause a meltdown. Besides, there’s not much exciting going on. “What about getting ready for Christmas?” you say. Yeah, well, that too. I don’t have very many Christmas decorations, besides a set of lights I still haven’t put up and a light that used to belong to my Meme.
Oh, I did get a DVD player because I was tired of sucking up to my computer. The first movie I watched on it was Bubba Ho-Tep, which…. meh. I fell asleep towards the end and missed the ending. Oh well.
And good luck to the Insane Larocque Posse, who are making the fruitcake this afternoon. I defy you to find anyone else with my mad orange-zesting skillz!
We’ve got a computer down! Oh wait, never mind… October 24, 2004
Minor crisis yesterday. My computer wouldn’t boot up. It would turn on, make all the appropriate noises, and then… blank screen. It’s done this before, most notably after I moved up here. And once last weekend. It gets fixed through a combination of blind luck and threats - seriously, I have no idea what combination of poking around the wires and blowing on stuff makes it work, but working it is. So, I’m happy once more.
Brief update: finished The Englishman’s Boy - FINALLY! It was okay, in the end. I wouldn’t reread it, but I wouldn’t tell people not to read it. I liked the last chapter a lot more than the rest of the book, because it tied in to the first chapter, and then brought the whole story to a satisfactory, if unhappy, ending. We meet to discuss it on Tuesday.
I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on the IMAX screen at Science North yesterday, with a fellow Dal grad who moved to Sudbury in the summer, and a co-worker of hers. It turns out the co-worker has family in the same area where I’m originally from down south. At the end of the outing, I got invited to a Stitch n’ Bitch yet another co-worker of theirs is hosting. Looking forward to it - must start Christmas presents for my sisters, so this is as good an excuse as any to start.
As soon as I finished TEB last night, I started Going Postal. Utterly and completely brilliant! It has all the elements of a classic Pratchett novel - reluctant heroes! Highly intelligent tyrants! Fiendishly evil villains! Weird old guys! The Glom of Nit! (Hey - read the book yourself if you want to know what that is!)
I need antibiodics - stat! September 16, 2004
Well, it appears that I have several nasty viruses lurking on my computer. I updated my Norton (which I do twice a week anyways), updated Ad-aware 6.0, and restarted the computer in Safe Mode. I ran both programs, and Norton found 33 instances of a Trojan. (Incidently, the Norton site was not very helpful in helping me get rid of the virus. I’ve tried everything, including digging through the Registry file.) Nothing. It keeps coming back.
*sigh* It looks like I might have to format my hard drive - AGAIN. I had some major problems back in February that necessitated a formatting (it turns out the problem was with the modem, not the system. But it was good to get rid of the superfluous crap.) The big difference is that this time, my computer isn’t the hub of a network, and I have high-speed Internet access, whereas before I only had dial-up. Oh, the many joys of high-speed Internet!
Fortunately, I have tomorrow afternoon off (unless someone tells me to stay), so I’ll back up the My Documents folder, my Music folder, my bookmarks, and my address book. Oh, and the folder where I keep my downloaded programs. Or at least make a note of which ones will need to be re-downloaded - Firefox and Thunderbird will definitely be backed up so I won’t have to start off with IE.