Gord's computer failed on me today as a result of malware causing system corruption; it couldn't have come at a worse time as I'd set aside this weekend to back up and reformat my own hard drive. Which I can't do tonight because USB 1.0 turns out to be too slow to feasibly perform any operation on an external hard drive. orz So tomorrow I have to ( Read more... )

I have actually been writing this entry for three days. ^^;

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Watched Brokeback Mountain with sororial unit and Cedric. I... think I'm the only person I know who wasn't depressed by it. XD;; Most people seem to either weep buckets (sister) or go "Well, that was a downer," (Ced) but I came away with this quiet feeling. Like watching Mushishi (and then I had to take five minutes to explain Mushishi to my ( Read more... )

I didn't have to reinstall Windows. Um.

LOL?

( Noted for posterity. )

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You have an Excel sheet containing hundreds of email addresses. Now you need to send an email to each of those addresses, i.e. use it as a mailing list. You'll definitely have to do it again in the future ( Read more... )

A side effect of having to spend twenty hours of a beautifully sunny long weekend in someone's basement backing up data to the web server, reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling all the software is that I read about a hundred pages of Trinity Blood and watched six episodes of Bleach, because I was going to lose them in the reformat and anyhow ( Read more... )

AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH

...Okay. (This will only be of interest to dipping_sauce but) I've pinpointed the problem: something's corrupted msimg32.dll, which is a library of elemental GUI functions. Over the weekend it went from working to "not found". Even when I run Windows XP repair from the CD, essentially reinstalling Windows, it refuses to copy that ( Read more... )

Livejournal 2005 Style Contest. The top five will be made available to public users. And some of them are a helluva lot prettier and easier to customise than the current ones.

(FYI my picks are Transmogrified, A Novel Conundrum, Geometrix, Tranquility II and Flexible Squares.)

EDIT -- I have to be doing something wrong. Why isn't there a way ( Read more... )