So I've decided it's finally time for me to catch up on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I knew I was going to have to catch up on this before The Avengers was released, but, for various reasons, I hadn't actually seen any of the films in this shared 'verse in full before now. I know I've seen parts of the two Iron Man films, but not the entire ( Read more... )

Back from the Apple Store and it turns out that I needed the actual power supply replaced. Much better! And it actually was covered under Apple Care, which is strange because I would have sworn it wasn't covered (I've had to replace the power adapter before), but I am much happier. Although I had a lot of trouble getting it to connect again at ( Read more... )

On Friday night, my computer (Isabella) died in the middle of watching the "making of" the IKEA kitty ad. I thought at the time that it was simply issues with my power board, but it seems the issues with power supply I've mentioned to a couple of you have just come to a head, and I can't get her to turn on anywhere. I have an appointment with the ( Read more... )

I have the house to myself this weekend (plus cat, who says hi and wants to know why this screen is more interesting than him), and decided that I'd sit down with my knitting, my knee rug (the one coppersinger made me), and Pride and Prejudice on DVD (anyone who has to ask "which one" gets defriended. There can be only one adaptation!). Before watching, I ( Read more... )

I have Isabella back! YAY! I'm now triple-backing up before I decide if I shall be a). doing the clean reinstall I was about to do when she died, b). downloading the most recent episode of Glee, or c). downloading as much of the NuWho I'm missing as possible. Since I've hardly been using the internet, there's... uh... eleven days worth of ( Read more... )

I still has no computer. Isabella needs a new logic board (Macspeak for motherboard) and since they had none in stock, and since I went in on a Friday, that takes us to the middle of this week at the earliest. I miss her kind of like an arm. Maybe a torso. Probably a torso. I am REALLY sick of Windows computers ( Read more... )

I've been at my grandparents since last Sunday (Mother's Day here) and I haven't checked anything on either LJ or Dreamwidth since before then (or Twitter). Isabella is being fixed (I hope) today; I have an appointment at 3pm with the Genius Bar and if nothing happens I will be Most Displeased (and kind of panicky, because while I can afford to ( Read more... )

I'm going to be computerless for the foreseeable future. Isabella is really playing up, again -- the same issue as yesterday, although now she won't respond to me resetting the System Management Control. My AppleCare should cover this -- I just called Apple -- but I have to lug her back to Chadstone, and I've already arranged to visit my ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I was told I had to rebuild Isabella /o\ I spent this morning in a bit of denial about it, not helped that my version of Overdoing It is a lot less than anyone else's version of Overdoing It, and this afternoon (after sleeping most of the day away) I opened her lid and... nothing happened. I checked her power. Connected. I tried a ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall I have had a bit of trouble with Isabella (my computer) of late. Namely, I purchased iWork 09 and can't use it, with kernel errors and kernel panics and all kinds of fun things. Yesterday, I purchased a shiny 750GB external drive (the 750GB drive worked out cheaper per GB than the 1TB drive, and between it and my other ( Read more... )