Dell adaptor from Guangzhou arrived.

I'm online somehow. My studies can continue to stagnate.

Internet contract ends today. If we switch ISPs, it'll be no internetz for a few days. Should I survive, my studies might just take a take a turn for the good.

Our monitor flashes off and on every few minutes, sometimes every few seconds. As the computer freezes just before this happens, I've trained myself to look away or shut my eyes in advance. In addition to this, the computer freezes and resets itself a few times every hour. This makes using Windows Live Messenger, in particular, a beeeeyotch ( Read more... )

I finally have broadband after 2 weeks of fruitless frustration (shouldered by my sister), 1 Telstra technician and more phonecalls than a telemarketer would make in a month; considerably longer than the 5 minutes iPrimus claimed it would take.