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site-related techspeak, computer crap, other technical garble not of interest to the general populace.

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Go Firefox Go!

Fellow Firefox users: I have a belated Christmas present for you!

BoingBoing has posted an article telling us how to speed up your web browsing experience. I’ve implemented it, and it seems to work.

However, there is a caveat detailed on adot’s notblog—apparently, this could potentially cause problems with certain servers, and won’t appreciably speed up your load time unless you have an appropriate combination of bandwidth and processing power.

So, remember what you did, in case you need to undo it later. But for now, it’s pretty sweet.

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Why Do All Computers Hate Me?

Goddamned XP is smarter than me.

I just lost all my mp3’s. Somehow.

I mean, I know enough about computers to know that they’re still there, physically. The computer just doesn’t know how to find them. I guess that’s what I get for playing around with my Shared Documents without really knowing what I’m doing.

I even tried doing a system restore, to no avail.

And, to make things even better, our internet appears to be down. Neither my nor Aaron’s computer can get online. I can see Aaron’s computer, though, and play mp3’s from it (since mine are currently MIA).

Guess I’ll just hook up the old computer *again* and transfer all my mp3’s *again*.

I am seriously annoyed right now.

*sneer*

Edit, 10:12pm:
Shortly after I wrote the above entry, I hooked up the old computer (again) and started re-transferring my mp3 collection to the new computer. In the meantime, I lit a candle and read a book and calmed myself down.

I have now recovered all of my music, read Wil Wheaton’s book Just A Geek in its entirety (almost—I still have the appendices to finish), and made the basement smell like a freshly-baked double-chocolate muffin.

*contented sigh*

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The Dell Is In Effect

After a long evening of transferring files from the old ‘puter to the new, my refurbished Dell Dimension 3000 is humming happily (and quietly) beneath my desk.

I still need to rescue my bookmarks from the old computer, though, and reinstall all my programs, and other new-computer-type things.

For now, though, I’m going to bed.

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I’m Popular…?

Well, I just banned a dozen IP addresses in the same subnet (is that what it’s called? the first two numbers are the same) from commenting on my blog. I’m going to see if that puts a stop to the spamming that just started this weekend.

If it doesn’t, everybody be prepared to plug in your e-mail address next time you comment on a post. Don’t worry, MT encodes your e-mail so it can’t be harvested by spiders or bots or what-have-you. Goodness knows I can’t afford to have you guys stop commenting at all… my poor self-esteem couldn’t handle the strain. I’ll put a note in the comments area if I institute required fields.

So, yay for the fact that my blog has finally been targeted by a spam-bot. That means *someone* knows I’m out there, besides you diligent few. Boo for spam-bots.

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Now Taking Requests

I know I should probably wrap up the detail work on this site before I start bemoaning my sparse readership (again). After all, the website archives aren’t on this server yet, and my CSS and PHP still have some glitches to smooth out.

Still, though, I find myself posting my link in other blogs’ comments, and signing up on all those blog tracking sites, and wanting strangers to think my site is as cool as I think theirs is. Are. Whatever.

But, in all actuality, I created this site: a.) to keep in touch with my out-of-town and sometimes out-of-touch friends; b.) to encourage myself to continue writing and journaling; and c.) to give myself a continuing web design challenge. So, I ask you, the readership, what you’d like to read:

  1. More day-to-day shit (e.g. ‘my job sucks’ or ‘my computer crashed’)
  2. More links to news stories (e.g. the new Willy Wonka movie, Viktor Yuschenko’s face, or the death penalty)
  3. More philosophical and sociopolitical thoughts and ideas and rants
  4. More pictures and picture galleries (daily or weekly, even, if I have that many good ones?)
  5. More links to linkworthy blogs and rants
  6. Your content’s just fine as it is! Why do you always worry about shit so much?

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