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October 08, 2007
Back from the brink...
Brian took my machine to work and was able to bring it back to life...it was not responding after I'd open it, I'd have to remove the battery, power source, then plug it back in and reboot it up...after doing this 3 times in a row, it finally gave up and I got a C:\DOS prompt and some other heinous error message (that neither of us had seen before)...After some hocus pocus and hard drive de-frag, it seems to be back...for now...till it dies again...who knows...its always a surprise here, we never know what our technical stuff is gonna do from day to day here...I rented the movie "The Prestige" and during a very loud explosion, it cause my DVD player, television and receiver to all shut off...i tried again, it shut it all down again...I had to fast forward and mute that part of the movie so my equipment wouldn't pass out...go figure...
Speaking of weird, confusing technology, I'd like to apologize for the weirdness of the Comments section...A few weeks back someone said their comment wasn't accepted, it thought something was profane...I feel your pain- I tried to respond to a comment left here the other day and I TOO got the same "your message is not compliant, please change it and re-submit' message...wha??? I didn't say anything bad! I tried to make a few adjustments and nothing made it happy, so I gave up...I am not in control of what the Comments God thinks is profane or acceptable, I think Moveable Type is the culprit, and we are just at their mercy...so, if you have comments issues, feel free to email me directly and at least I'll know what you want to say...
The beadmaking has begun...I got a lot of Rows 5 and 6 made today, not all but lots...and some weren't what I was planning, and while putting one hot bead in the kiln, I hit one that was already in the rack, thusby ruining both beads...sigh...*&%# happens, as always...but that's ok, I just laughed and kept going...what else can I do?
oh, George Clooney is on Dave, I think I'm gonna watch...
Posted by Donner at October 8, 2007 10:54 PM
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Darn, I missed George... ;+(
I feel for you with your computer troubles. Drive me nuts when it happens. My youngest daughter has an introductory computer science class at school this year and she had difficulty understanding the difference between hardware and software. So I told her what I had been taught: hardware is the part you can hit, software is the part you can only yell at. I'm not sure what the teacher would think of that, but at least she gets is now!
Zen, That's the answer. I can't wait to see those beads... He he!
Posted by: Francoise at October 9, 2007 11:02 AM
Ha! I've worked in IT for over 10 years now and have never heard that definition of the difference between HARDWARE and SOFTWARE. I'll definately give that one some mileage. :) Thanks!
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at October 9, 2007 11:20 AM