Nng, totally sucking at updates, even boring updates ( Read more... )

So my laptop, which I purchased from Compaq pre-installed with Windows XP, after the latest automatic update, is popping up a box claiming that I'm pirating Windows. It is popping this box up incessantly. Whaaat ( Read more... )

We have definite proof of mice. Or, at least, mouse. I mean, I already knew, because of the neat nickel-sized holes gnawed into almost anything mouse-tasty and mouse-tooth-permeable that we were foolish enough to leave out. (It also had an ambitious go at a packet of pu-erh tea that luckily I hadn't thought was aged enough, but seems to have ( Read more... )

Two flareups, one of which kept me in the bathtub for several hours, the other of which I finally made manageable with ibuprofen, because it was my birthday, dammit. I've been wanting the fifth season of the Sopranos for ages and ages now, though, and he surprised me with it and we watched the first DVD's worth ( Read more... )

Well, not likely to buy HP/Compaq again. The keyboard is hopeless, breaking easily, faulting with heat, and almost impossible to clean properly, made out of cheapass materials, and with several letters nigh unusable after less than a year of use. (Vaio keyboard was cleanable and lasted at least five years.) They won't ship me a new keyboard -- I ( Read more... )

No lightbox today; I was insanely exhausted and just didn't make it to the right time. Moose woke me up early yesterday, so I was on half-sleep if that. I'm going to set an alarm for a warning prior to *bedtime*, though. I keep looking at the time and going 'oh, it is LATE' and of course then I don't want to take the pills because I don't want ( Read more... )

So I have always been a hardcore purist when it comes to downloading goodies off Teh Interweb. I think the RIAA are scumsucking weasels as much as the next chick (and that's giving weasels a worse name than they deserve), but I don't like to share or use copyright materials other than in a fair use sense... and given that fair use is pretty fuzzy ( Read more... )

Now I just got this (and no, I'm not mashing reload; I'm just tickling it occasionally):

No Service

The Zone Billing system is currently down for upgrade and maintenance. The down time is expected to last about 5 hours. Thank you for your patience.

Now... what's missing from this communication, besides a touch more grovelling ( Read more... )

Asheron's Call: Dark Majesty shipped today, and my best guess is that the Zone neglected to, say, stress-test their subscription servers. Who'd have thought that, with housing potentially available day one, zillions of slavering geeks would be dropping their pre-ordered or freshly bought CDs in and trying to sign up for the expansion ( Read more... )

Okay, it *is* crap over the counter conditioner, but after hot oiling my hair tonight, and conditioning it with the reliable if heavy and not terribly great smelling Thermasilk, it tangled approximately immediately. I think I should be maligning the hot oil instead. My hair feels nice, and it's not a huge frizz monster, but it's horribly ( Read more... )