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Feb. 14th, 2004 01:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbicideWell, I figured out what I forgot to backup: my fucking address book. Arrrrrrrrgh!
Officially, I don't have anyone's email address anymore. Blah. Though, hrm, all is not lost. I must have a backup on disc from before (when I forgot to backup something else instead). Will check tomorrow.
Also, I can't seem to find my damn Opera registration information. As much of a spazz as I am, I'm fairly meticulous/anal about this sort of thing. I have one folder where I stick all my software keys and it's not there. I've reformatted at least once before, and thus saved it. Opera's auto-email-lost-registration thingie is showing me no love. I'm going mad. I want the accursed ad-banner to go AWAY.
And I'm not sure if it's from swaning around in shorts/tee all day today or my Adventures in Arctic Greenlake on Monday, but I think I'm coming down with a cold or something, because my throat is itchy. With all my pissing and moaning about the weather this winter, I've been vigilant about staying swaddled like a baby, but it was sunny and I just lost my head. Between catching a cold, straining my knee and torquing my back, I'm a complete mess. Thankfully (due to my swallowing ten billion Ibuprofen horse pills), my back is better. AND the back of my knees are reallyreally smooth.
Since it's a Friday night and I have a busy, early Saturday morning ahead of me, naturally I'm a total insomniac tonight.
Just. Kill. Me. Now.
As socially/environmentally conscious as I'd like to be, it's clear I'll whore myself out at $6.50 to sleep in an extra hour and drive instead of taking the bus.
In exciting news, I found a new skin for QCD that I lurrrve. It's called Minima. And it is mine.
Also. Updates? Are the DEVIL. I was upgrading some security patches and made the rather reckless decision of upgrading some hardware drivers. Why? I have no freaking idea. I've upgraded the Nvidia drivers before without wreaking havoc, so I just decided to do all of them. No, I really don't know what I was thinking. Anyhow. Video seemingly works fine; Audio works fine. Hobbes was looking cute, so I decided to test out Netmeeting/WebCam and .... enh? Everything was mushed up weirdly. It's not that it didn't work, it's just that it was a funhouse mirror and dog slow. That was not ok. I get a pathetic amount of joy out of that thing, and its reception has been amazingly clear. It's like having my own tv show when I netmeeting with friends and I didn't want to look like a squashed version of myself, thankyouverymuch. After a frantic few minutes trying to decide if my face was just really bloated and deformed, I figured out that it was an updated Intel driver for the webcam. Frantically removed it, rebooted and sacrificed a goat in the hopes that the original would be restored. Merciful Zeus. It was. My face was squashed no longer. And if I didn't look so tired and crappy with my hair sticking straight out in 9 different directions, I'd even snap a photo and share.
Oh dear god. Should really go read more Alice in Wonderland. That'll drive me to sleep in no time. Have to read like half the book tomorrow now, as have kept putting it off.
Mmmk bye.
Officially, I don't have anyone's email address anymore. Blah. Though, hrm, all is not lost. I must have a backup on disc from before (when I forgot to backup something else instead). Will check tomorrow.
Also, I can't seem to find my damn Opera registration information. As much of a spazz as I am, I'm fairly meticulous/anal about this sort of thing. I have one folder where I stick all my software keys and it's not there. I've reformatted at least once before, and thus saved it. Opera's auto-email-lost-registration thingie is showing me no love. I'm going mad. I want the accursed ad-banner to go AWAY.
And I'm not sure if it's from swaning around in shorts/tee all day today or my Adventures in Arctic Greenlake on Monday, but I think I'm coming down with a cold or something, because my throat is itchy. With all my pissing and moaning about the weather this winter, I've been vigilant about staying swaddled like a baby, but it was sunny and I just lost my head. Between catching a cold, straining my knee and torquing my back, I'm a complete mess. Thankfully (due to my swallowing ten billion Ibuprofen horse pills), my back is better. AND the back of my knees are reallyreally smooth.
Since it's a Friday night and I have a busy, early Saturday morning ahead of me, naturally I'm a total insomniac tonight.
Just. Kill. Me. Now.
As socially/environmentally conscious as I'd like to be, it's clear I'll whore myself out at $6.50 to sleep in an extra hour and drive instead of taking the bus.
In exciting news, I found a new skin for QCD that I lurrrve. It's called Minima. And it is mine.
Also. Updates? Are the DEVIL. I was upgrading some security patches and made the rather reckless decision of upgrading some hardware drivers. Why? I have no freaking idea. I've upgraded the Nvidia drivers before without wreaking havoc, so I just decided to do all of them. No, I really don't know what I was thinking. Anyhow. Video seemingly works fine; Audio works fine. Hobbes was looking cute, so I decided to test out Netmeeting/WebCam and .... enh? Everything was mushed up weirdly. It's not that it didn't work, it's just that it was a funhouse mirror and dog slow. That was not ok. I get a pathetic amount of joy out of that thing, and its reception has been amazingly clear. It's like having my own tv show when I netmeeting with friends and I didn't want to look like a squashed version of myself, thankyouverymuch. After a frantic few minutes trying to decide if my face was just really bloated and deformed, I figured out that it was an updated Intel driver for the webcam. Frantically removed it, rebooted and sacrificed a goat in the hopes that the original would be restored. Merciful Zeus. It was. My face was squashed no longer. And if I didn't look so tired and crappy with my hair sticking straight out in 9 different directions, I'd even snap a photo and share.
Oh dear god. Should really go read more Alice in Wonderland. That'll drive me to sleep in no time. Have to read like half the book tomorrow now, as have kept putting it off.
Mmmk bye.
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Date: 2004-02-14 09:01 am (UTC)As for Opera, I lose mine every time I reformat. Just go to the website and there's a place you can type in your info and they'll email you your key.
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Date: 2004-02-14 09:52 am (UTC)And the Opera thingie: I registered with my old sonic.net account and I'm having that mail forwarded--but no response from Opera. It's perplexing and frustrating.
AND I WANT THE AD BANNERS GONE!