• Wrestled and wrangled with mum's old computer for a while today, trying to get the hard drive out. Word of advice: if you plan to handle the insides of a desktop computer, larger towers are better. We ended up taking the whole thing apart to get it out. Just far too little space inside to do anything comfortably ( Read more... )

Positive things about the day so far: I have an UPSOrdered 1.5 weeks ago after the having yet another bulb explode and take the power of my half of the flat with it for the fourth time in three weeks, that time also corrupting a file I'd already done over 5000 words of. Figured I should maybe just, well, have an UPS for the computer. Lost work or ( Read more... )

Positives about yesterday: got a new computer (+ monitor, 19'' widescreen instead of the old 17'' 4:3 one) at work. Pretty. Not much better specced than the old one, but a little bit, and new clean Windows, which should help.

Negatives about yesterday: ( cut for computer related ramblings )

Just spent about an hour crawling around on all fours under mum's desk, untangling the awful mess of cables and reconnecting everything (and finding about five loose ones belonging to things we don't have any more) and removing a huge pile of dust while at it... I did try and not breathe too much, so I'm hoping it won't trigger a sneeze and cough ( Read more... )

I can finally has Internets again! *jumps around in glee ( Read more... )

My monitor at home seems to have died this morning, so I will be around even less.

Still have the laptop, but I might just be taking more breaks from the computer at home anyway, until I can go and get a decent new monitor. Which will probably be a problem, since it looks like there aren't any decent 19'' 4:3 ratio monitors available any more.

A few days ago, my finger slipped a bit in an online store, as fingers are wont to do (when they're mine anyway)... it's quite scary how dreadfully easily that can happen!

So today the courier came by and I now have an, um, new camera. Because I didn't have a black compact yet. And because it's pretty. And because I really do love Pentax colours ( Read more... )

Picked up my shiny new computer yesterday, so today was spent setting it up. Especially as I wasn't in the mood to go out - managed to stub my toe on the sofa yesterday, so it's all bloody and bruised. Not broken though from what I can tell, just hurts a bit if I try to put full weight on it.

( Cut for boring computer stuff. )

Went ahead and ordered my shiny new desktop computer today. Will, with luck, get done by Friday, but as they don't seem to have the 750 GB Western Digitals drives in stock right now (and I'd really prefer WD - I know no drives are infallible but I have more faith in WD than in others), I'm not quite sure if that will happen.

( More computer woes. )

Well, at least I know now that it wasn't the power supply or the dust causing the random restarts ( Read more... )