February 1st, 2004

zorac

I hate computers and they hate me

So, on Friday night I decided to reinstall Windows on zorac, on the grounds of it having developed a tendency to lock up of late. Collapse ) Having done all that, you can imagine my delight to discover that XP is still subject to random lock-ups. *stabs*

Last night, the gale-force winds managed to give me a nice little power-outage. Initially, all seemed well, until later in the evening visar (and thus my Internet connection) died. A post-mortem this morning revealed a dead power-supply as the culprit, and given that it was the one thing not on a surge protector... This afternoon I popped into PC World to pick up a new case and another surge protector Collapse ) I had something that worked, in a Frankenstein's monster kind of way.

All that really got in the way of me getting anything much else done (other than shopping trips), so my evil plans to take over the_restricted appear to have been thwarted yet again. Wah.