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Arcadia has the puffy-sleeved onesie.
 Arcadia has the puffy-sleeved onesie. So, the picture doesn’t do the onesie justice, but the sleeves are extra big. It’s like the outfit was made for babies with jumbo arms! Luckily, Arcadia’s arms only take up a fraction of the sleeves. Although, the big puffy sleeves do make her look kind of royal. An open note to my computers. Why? Why do you aggravate me so? I should enjoy using you. Stop before I really lose it and hurt you! I hate when PDFs open up in the browser. That is why I have PDF Download extension for Firefox. But sometimes I have to use Internet Exploder. You think the setting would be easy to find. I searched all over the IE settings, didn’t find it. I finally open up Adobe Reader and find the setting I need. It’s pretty obvious once you see it. That should have fixed it right? Wrong. PDFs still opened in the browser. For most of you it would be working by this point, but I am special. I have the full version of Acrobat. I had to change the setting there as well. Don't get me started Wireless connection problems I am probably too smart For my own good I had problems before I fiddled so I got a new wireless router Fiddled some more A detailed history On several computers The unpleasant occasion Goes in and out But that's all With Vista it's regular Listening to my music Streamed from the basement It cuts right out In and out and in and out More frequently Than me checking email Will it stop Nobody knows I updated some drivers Fix it will it Should have at least Probably not the case It really gets me how the wireless can somehow mess with the wired. My wired connection gets disabled, seemingly at random, after I turn wireless off (or maybe at some point when it was running). So when I plug in I get no connection. The connection is even disabled and I can’t re-enable it. I have to reboot. Later the computer wouldn’t even recognise it was online. Web pages would work, but it wouldn’t admit it. Get this, I was trying to rename a shortcut, Windows Mobility Center, to just Mobility Center. I wanted to make my menu smaller by cutting out unnecessary text. To my disbelief, Vista wouldn’t let me take out Windows. How !#&%$ stupid is that? It let me call it “WMC” but not just Mobility Center. After hooking it up to the TV to watch a Blue-Ray movie, the laptop display configuration was messed up. Colors were too dark, contrast was too high. But could I find the setting to fix it? No, there was nothing I could change, nothing I managed to see looked wrong. I thought I was crazy, but I reboot and it’s back to normal. I did find a confusing ICC setting dialog, if only I knew how to use it. If you have a laptop you plan on throwing out, please let me smash it up first. Last night Arcaida had us all in a laughing fit. She started laughing…really laughing, which got me going. Then, Tysen came in the room and started laughing as well. This kept Arcadia going, which kept us going as well. I laughed so hard I cried. Such a sight to see and hear. I hope she finds something funny and laughs again today!
Take this as a warning, all of you out there who use ERASER and dabble with symlinks. This is my story as far as I can figure it out. I made a symlink to make my life easier on my new laptop. Symlinks are new to Windows (Vista), but everything I’ve read led me to belieive it would be safe to delete a symlink. My experiment didn’t work and I did just that, deleted the symlink. This was earlier today or yesterday. Just before I set off to bed tonight I saw that my fish bowl / recycle bin was full and decided to empty it. And by empty it I mean that I used Eraser to securely delete the files. It started off wiping what looked like temp Windows files and such, but it appeared to be only the first few of many more files to erase. I let it continue. After a second it started wiping what looked to be blog files. I had recently backed up all my blog files while preparing for an upgrade. I thought maybe I had made a copy of the folder and then deleted it. I let it continue and Eraser kept chugging along. Then it started to erase other, clearly more important files. But in my poor judgement I let it continue. It then slowed way down and indicated that it was erasing a very large TrueCrypt volume file. Humm, the only encrypted volume I have on this computer is my financial data crypt. Why would I have deleted that? While letting it continue, I opened up the file explorer and checked my custome user folder where I happened to store blog files, important stuff, and encrypted volumes. Sure enough, files were disappearing right before my eyes. At this point I nailed the “stop” erasing button and a layer of sweat quickly grew on my brow. What had I just done and how? I don’t think I lost any thing major. The encrypted volume, with my finanial files in it, had been backed up a week ago and I only changed them a little bit yesterday. As for the rest of the files, I am not sure what I even had, so I don’t miss it too much… that it until I go looking for something specific. I know I nuked a bunch of recipies Kathryn had saved. My guess is that when Eraser was going through the recycle bin it found the symlink and followed it. I set up a little test to see if I could recreate the mishap on dummy files. The worst possible thing happened. Eraser went back and started erasing more of my documents! WTF! Needless to say, Eraser is currently un-installed right now and everything is getting backed up to an external storage drive. Eraser will remain off my computer until I can figure out what happened or at least how to avoid it again in the future. On a side note, I am testing some recovery freeware, Recuva. It probably won’t help much, but I can hope.
I just finished reading The Mote in God’s Eye, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Apparently it’s a part of a CoDominium series, but I didn’t know that when I started reading it. I picked it up because some list on Wired or another sciencey-techy blog featured the book or maybe it was the specific planet in the book. The gist is that the humans meet alien species and then have to figure out what to do about it. Unlike other books in series that I read which are either predictable (Redwall) or never turning out the way I think they should (Star Wars), The Mote in God’s Eye was a nice change of pace. I previously read Ringworld by Larry Niven so I felt I had some idea of the way he writes, but the other author helped mix it up enough to keep me guessing. I like this book more than Ringworld, so if you have to choose go with this one. If you look at this book from the right direction you might see it as a cautionary tale in case humans never escape the planetary bounds of Earth. Just a little rant today. It bothers me how much money is used to show support. I’ve been reading a few annual reports that all list money donors. And I guess that’s nice. Money is easily tracked and very quantifiable. It also encourages jealousy and unenlightened competition which both increase the amount of donations. But I think it is a very poor measure of actual involvement and caring. Anybody can throw money at a problem but that doesn’t show they understand or really care about the problem. Just once, I’d like to see an annual report that shows how many hours of service an individual has contributed to an organization. Sure this would be hard to measure and track, but the end result would be more meaningful. |
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