Today has definitely been one of those days where I remembered why I felt so stressed just before my vacation and can't quite figure out why I thought databases would be a good career choice. Yeesh ( Read more... )

Today I made an edible, quite tasty, omelette for supper. As my omelettes are usually awful, this is quite the thing for me. I will never understand how I can master apparently difficult cooking things and fail at simple things like omelette ( Read more... )

So, the new computer has arrived (five days early!) and I'm getting it configured the way I want it. Windows 7 doesn't seem too scary so far and I've copied a lot of my files over to the new harddrive ( Read more... )

New computer has been ordered, estimated delivery on 17th October. This is while my parents are on vacation, but I've set up the family computer with all the VPN stuff so that I can work from home on the delivery date. So, it should be here pretty soon and Dell gave me some nice savings so it's a fairly decent system. Phew ( Read more... )

So, in conversation with a friend and my parents last night, I came to the conclusion that the stress of not knowing whether my laptop will start every day and not knowing what will go wrong this time (definitely the VGA connector on the lappie, the external monitor works fine connected to another computer), I've decided that it's time ( Read more... )

( Cut for techy moaning )

( Cut for lengthy computer woes )

I've been having a bit of a week. My computer played silly buggers on Wednesday and I've been nervous about turning it on ever since. And having anxiety moments every time I think about it, even though it's irrational to the extreme because the world isn't over if I have to replace my computer a bit earlier than planned ( Read more... )

My lovely hosts, FutureQuest, have helped me to get rid of all the compromised files and they have blocked the IP that the hack originated in. They have been wonderful and incredibly fast to respond to everything, which is amazing on a Sunday afternoon ( Read more... )

OK, it looks like www.selenayhaven.com (my site) got hacked during the week (thank you paranoidangel42 for the heads up ( Read more... )