So today my Mac froze.  Which never happens.  Oh, sure, it hangs, presenting me with the spinning beach ball of fury, but it never freezes.  Frozen screens are a Windows problem ( Read more... )

This is so the year of tech woes.  If it's not one thing, it's another.  So I collected my beloved Jhonen on Wednesday night, much like an anxious owner fetching a pet from the groomer's for the first time.  Though not a stranger to maintenance, my computer was getting a new hard-drive.  It was like Gizmo Rex all over again ( Read more... )

I found a disk full of wallpapers!  How fortunate!  Odd, though, that a music fiend such as myself would backup the visual but not the audio.  Strange indeed ( Read more... )

Well, the woes keep on coming.  I took my MacBook to the Apple Store and the diagnosis is that my hard-drive is gone.  Just gone.  So it has to be replaced.  All the things I added since July?  Gone ( Read more... )

My MacBook won't start right.

I'm going to go cry in a corner now.

I trust everyone had a lovely holiday.  I was never one for Thanksgiving myself, it being a blood holiday commemorating the onset of genocide, but I do like the food, so...yeah.

I haven't been able to bring myself to write anything since I got back.  For one thing, it's academic crunch time.  The walls are really closing in as the semester wraps up ( Read more... )

Actually, I'm pretty sure the raccoon was not rabid. But holy fuzzy, a raccoon! One would think that I was used to such things, what with all the deer, rabbits, and opossums running around at home. But I've never seen a raccoon before (that wasn't dead on the side of the road anyway) and I was just amazed to see it in New freakin' York. Of course, ( Read more... )

So this morning my adapter died.  The one I bought this summer to replace my original one.

Yeah, that one.

Not very happy right now.  Is this what technology is?  Something to throw money after, time after time?

I'm actually posting from Jhonen right now.  Surprise!  Turns out my wireless works fine.  Just not in my room.  Yeah.  I'm in my floor's ( Read more... )

Gosh, but I do love my new notebook.  So far so good in the land of Jhonen the Wonder Computer.  Initially, I was so happy to have it that I was braced for something unfortunate to happen.  What does that say about me?  That I'm naturally pessimistic or that I don't think that God would give me a break...?

Anyway, I visited my old stomping grounds ( Read more... )

I lost my internet connection on my MacBook.  Been blind all weekend.

I know that it's my computer that's wonky because I'm on my school-issued Thinkpad right now (it feels so wrong going back!).  So my ethernet cable isn't broken and the server isn't down.  So it must be my Jhonen...

WAH!

At least I have a connection.  That's good, right?  But it ( Read more... )