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678 days ago
I found a religious extremist for you to hunt down. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2007 Maybe America should be looking inward, before trying to find them in other countries. But that's not news at all. (No offence to my non-extremist religious friends. People like he give you guys a bad reputation).
681 days ago
Now, I'm well aware that whinging about Microsoft's latest demon-spawned brainchild is about as avante garde as making jokes about POTUS Bush's overwhelming failures. But my new Acer laptop arrived the other day (if you didn't know, they couldn't fix my old one and so replaced it instead) and I'm mostly pretty happy. Dual-core processor, 120gb hard drive, stacks of RAM, and other nice little trimmings. But there's one glaring error. One huge oversight, so massively all-pervasive and insidious that I'm stumped in trying to fix it. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the laptop was shipped with a virus. Known to the masses as Microsoft Vista Home Premium, else known as Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here. The problems start almost immediately. On first startup, one is treated to the full force of Vista's overbearing graphics (Vista is the first operating system that actually lists a graphics card as necessary for smooth operations) in a charming setup screen. What is my name, ...
735 days ago
How many toenails do you have? Somewhere between nine and eleven. I think it varies. What colour lollies (snakes, gummi anything) do you eat first out of a serving? Red/purple/blue (all the really artificial ones!). What's your lucky number? 8. What's a word you're fond of? At the moment? Paragon. And travesty. Fly or swim? Fly. Sink or swim? Swim. Does pineapple belong on a pizza? On Ham and Pineapple (Hawaiian), yes. Any other pizza, only if it makes it tasty and delicious. Do you sing when you're alone? Or even not alone? Sometimes in company, rarely alone.. What's a book that's within sight right now? Moya Simmons': The Boy who would Live Forever . Do you agree with the idea that an Australia Card would effectively allow hackers or identity fraudsters to gain access to all our private and personal data in one fell swoop? Very likely, yes. I also disagree with the entire concept ...
742 days ago
Am I being sarcastic in my Blog title? Not really, no. So I took the computer back to Dick Smith's like I said I would, and the bastardly traitor of a computer loaded five times in a row, perfectly, for the customer service woman. I think she thought I was either a liar or a lunatic. Nevermind. The computer continued to play along for a further six days, to the point where I actually started to trust it, and put some programs back on it. No sooner, however, had I installed Office than... ... BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH ... .. . Yeah. Unhappy. And it was past 5pm, so Acer support line was closed for the night. I tried again, today, and this time got on to a very helpful young man whose name started with a K, I think. Anyway, he told me to try a system restore. "But", says I, "that's what the repair centre people did. It didn't work." Just try it, says he. And so I do, and (of course) lose all my programs etc again. So, because I'm ...
749 days ago
So... I've officially had the worst time ever with my computer. First it broke. Wouldn't load Windwos, or when it did, it gave me the blue-followed-by-black-followed-by-blue-again screen of Death at a random and unspecified time. Sometimes when I wasn't even so much as touching the computer! This is a Bad Thing in a less than 12 month old computer. So. I sent it away to get fixed (down to Flemington) and brought Old Faithful out of the closet. Lucky for me I didn't sell the old computer last year, methinks. And, just today, my laptop comes back to me. First impression: Crap. The hard drive has been wiped, and it's a very, very lucky thing I backed up most of my files, because they're all gone. But that's okay. All I need do is download a few programs, re-install Office and I'll be functionally back on my feet. That's not a problem. Admittedly, AVG took way too long to download, but that's okay. It's not a problem. Oh, and I have a new keyboard? What's with that? ...
