My tower is finally back up and running. I gave in and formatted the drive. It runs much better now, although like a noob I forgot to back up my bookmarks. What really makes this inexcusable is that I have an account with Delicious. A few clicks and they would have been saved. I think I might have an old backup folder on my secondary drive ( Read more... )

Happy New Year to you all! May you be free from the stupid in 2009.

I've had to do a bit of tech support at work this week while the people who regularly do it are away. What part of 'what's in your Sent Items folder' means 'describe an entirely different process to me, that I already see in my sleep'?

Caller: Can we arrange a pickup instead of a ( Read more... )

Borrowing Hubby's computer while mine is being scanned for viruses. It's a stubborn bug, and cleverly made - it hides 'Folder Options' in the Windows Explorer 'Tools' menu so you can't delete the temp files it lurks in, locks you out of regedit so you can't get 'Folder Options' back, loads itself into your startup items, and prevents your antivirus ( Read more... )

We have snow. It's wet packing snow, too. I'm a little annoyed - it's too early for snow! :( Plus I hadn't finished with the garden yet. I wanted to run the mower over last year's plants in the flowerbeds around the house, but the ground was always too wet, and the mower would have sunk. I suppose I'll just have to leave it there for "winter ( Read more... )

Does anyone know any good recipes involving green onions? A coworker gave me a bag full of them (it's actually one of the packs they're shipped to supermarkets in) last week, and well, that's a lot of green onions. The timing is good, because I needed to buy onions anyway but again, a lot of green onions. So far we've had stir fry, and scones are ( Read more... )

I just realized today that I check my LJ at work from time to time, and these aren't flocked. Nor would I make them so, because non-LJ peeps like to read them too. So, these will only be Tales about Courier, rather than Current Job, just to be safe. As we've seen happen every so often, Things Get Leaked What Shouldn't, and it's always better to be ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm done with Tales from working in Technical Support. But there are still more! For those of you who don't know/don't recall, in fall 2007 I was part of one of *ISP*'s mass layoffs. The layoff took place at pretty much the worst time it could have - I had just bought a house, and the only thing hiring at the time was retail. Well, I wasn't ( Read more... )