Well, my desktop PC was working a week ago, though the connection to the Net was dead. (Someone apparently cut the LAN cable during the renovations in the building where my office is located.) But last week I went in to print some files, and discovered that, all of a sudden, the damned thing was refusing to boot up. Some kind of hal.dll file in the System32 folder is ganked, and I haven’t been able to make it work again. The recovery CD and boot CD aren’t working. I’m getting close to the point where I’ll have to sigh and …
Category: GENERAL
Current Positional Adjustments
New semester adjustments: There’s some new kind of antivirus apps on the uni PCs. They do such lovely things as prevent you installing the apps you need and nobody else needs, like apps that play both sound and subtitled for ripped DVDs that have not been released in Asia. There’s a workaround, sort of. But I hope it stays worked around long term. There’s some kind of SQL thing running on all the PCs too, and you can’t log out of it without a password of some kind. Ack! I’m trying to slow down my speech again. Having been out …
Mad Sh*tters and Donut Shoe Porno Freaks
c(h)ristine (hypothetically) has a “mad shitter” at her workplace, apparently. And yes, it is sad that there is a category of weird people who defecate in workplaces. Well, I can’t say I’ve ever had a comparable experience to that one, but once, way back around the turn of the century (haha, I can say that now!), I was working at a now-defunct company that made computer-usage tutorials for the blind. I lived pretty far from work; it ended up being something like 20 minutes by bus, then 45 minutes by subway, or else 20 minutes by train and then 25 …
I was gonna do some writing…
But my hard drive filled up. It filled up to the point my word processor was crashing, but of course I didn’t know that was what happened, so I logged out, rebooted, and then, after the reboot, it wouldn’t let me log in. The hard drive was so damned full that I couldn’t even log in, there was no room for the logs to run and log my logging in. And I don’t know the command line in Linux quite well enough to deal with that unaided. Happily, I had Lime’s old laptop here, and I connected to the net …
Charlie & Claire Wedding Photos
Some photos (by the best man) from the wedding I attended in Australia may be seen here. I’ll be uploading whatever turned out of my own pics to Flickr sometime soon.
“The Utmost Confidentiality”
Interesting how the Nigerian email scam has become a template for other scams: Greetings from Dubai, This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business partners. I am Mr. Majid Al-Hussein, currently Chief Security Officer with a reputable security and finance company here in U. A. E. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you. I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. …
Back, back, back
I’m back. The wedding was lovely, low-key but a lot of drinking in the afterward bit, with which I couldn’t realy keep up. But happily I turned that sow’s ear into a cheap silken purse, by taking many pictures that shall (dis)grace Flickr soon. It was very good to meet my old friend Charlie and my slightly-less-old friend Claire. Melbourne the next day was okay, but I was a bit constrained in terms of time and foolishly missed the Picasso exhibition — damn fool me, I didn’t go straight there when I got downtown, but hunted around for cheap winter …
Melbourne Airport
They’re very nice here. I think Singapore wins the “Most Sensible and Relieving Airport” prize for my recent travels, but Melbourne Airport wins “Nicest Folks Working There” prize. (Canberra is second — the barmaid muttered at Ian, I think, but he was allowed into the security area with me, even though he wasn’t flying himself, which is pretty cool.) Off I go. I’ll be in Korea tomorrow.
Visited Countries…
create your own visited countries map or vertaling Duits Nederlands That’s changed a fair bit in the last few years. Still need to visit Europe sometime, and would like to do Cambodia, China, Vietnam, maybe some of Africa, and some of South America. Someday…
Septembering
Just back from Charlie’s wedding, and found this post on Ritu’s LJ. While still a mite pensive, I’m doing the meme. 1) This is the 1st of September, what do you want to accomplish by the 31st? I need to revise 2 more stories (or more) to send out to major fiction markets by the end of September. I took up a challenge to do so. 2) What does September make you think about or feel? Two perhaps contradictory feelings: one, the beginning of the academic year. It’s when school always started for me, throughout my life, so it’s a …