All My Useless Advice

Great setup, no? Notice the BSOD on the netbook.

2010-02-22T15:39:00.000-08:00

Also, BSOD means Blue Screen Of Death for those who don't understand computer lingo. Netbook's always had a HDD problem, but it's never BSOD'd on it's own before.

From "ho ho ho" to "OMG NO"

2010-02-11T02:36:00.000-08:00

...thank you, TUAW, for that quote.

So, we wonderful Aussies get laptops for school now. Ho ho ho. Yay. Good-oh. Good, now my teachers don't have to try and decipher my handwriting.

My school laptop's hard drive died today. During maths. Windows came up with a wonder of an error message:

"Windows has detected your hard drive is failing."

Or something to that effect anyway, I had two screenshots but I don't have the computer.

OMG NO! Here I was thinking these crashes, the going thru of the system repair wasn't anything to worry about. Seems not. Either I've stuffed my laptop with so much stuff it's carked it, or maybe I just don't treat it right. I suggest the latter seeing as cramming stuff into a HDD isn't a risky move at all. Anyway, I gave the computer fixer guy the laptop and he said "If it's a software problem I can fix it but if it's inside the computer I have to send it to the manufacturers". Oh shiiiiiiitttteeee. That means I may be without a laptop for a good three weeks, which is not good. I who have nothing for school apart from a laptop, is royally screwed. More to the point, now how am I gonna not pay attention during maths and actually just procrastinate? And even more to the point, how am I gonna listen to music or play chess?Flugufrelsarinn by Sigur Rós is one of my favourite things to listen to during class as it soothes me. No longer.

I am now gonna be a whiny little bitch.

Also, to my teachers who believe I can't do all my work on the computer: Erm, I'm a computer geek. I can find a way. Need me to draw something? It's called Photoshop. Need me to write out complex math problems? It's called Word. It does that. Need me to actually do the bloody work so I can pass and work for Apple when I'm older? Let me use the bloody computer.

If you think there is something wrong with me writing my notes into a computer, well, I'm afraid you probably think I can understand my handwriting (which I can't) and can write quickly and neatly. Not so.

Give me a bloody computer, I saw an occupational therapist for two years. Be nice.

In other news I really, really want to see Depeche Mode on tour and buy two DM shirts.

No, I can barely go a post without mentioning the best band in the universe.

...this blogging is becoming a once a month thing. Whoops.

Pain, will you return it, I'll say it again, pain

2010-01-11T06:47:00.000-08:00

Dentistry is a bitch.

Today's plans were to get up at 9 am to go to my grandma's, help her out with some computer problems, then get some lunch and go to the dentist. It didn't work out that way.

First off, I didn't get to sleep until 4 am last night. I was watching Devotional. With my entire Depeche Mode collection excluding the Sounds Of The Universe box set beside me. Naturally that made me a tad tired and stoned.

My mum wakes me up at 9 am, like planned. The rest of the day went fine up until we worked out we wouldn't be having lunch after my grandma's because my mum's scrapbooking class was going on longer than expected. So we had to go straight to the dentist.

30 minutes of having my teeth cleaned to buggery later, we were out of there. Went to Next Byte looking for a Magic Mouse, found one but it wasn't hooked up to a Mac. Damn sexy mouse though. Yes, I just called a mouse sexy. I'm a geeky Apple fangirl, now leave me alone.

I just had to clean my teeth and jeez that hurt like fucking hell. Dentistry is a bitch.

Now, on to better things like getting some actual sleep and preparing for seeing the friend on Thursday who believes my floof will attack her.

We are going to IKEA on Wednesday as well as the doctor - I've got this strange purple lump on my face.

Gotten back into Unreal

2009-12-23T20:43:00.000-08:00

Oh, damn. Unreal has taken over my computer time again, as a time waster while I try and install Quake Live. I figure here would be the best place to describe the wonderful botmatch that went on today (me versus 16 of the computer. Perfect). This was written on Windows Live Writer which I don’t like very much, so if something screws up I apologise.

First off, a picture of my character, SisterOfNight.

Here are some shots of the actual fight.

And finally the scores.

This was with no cheats, so I’m kinda proud. The AI players are a little too easy though, and Katryn was one of the hard ones. I sniped mostly with a flak cannon, my weapon of choice.

A bit cut up at the moment.

2009-12-16T05:51:00.001-08:00

Why, you ask? Well, I've been cleaning my iPod touch preparing it to go out tomorrow, fitting it's case and all, and I just discovered a crack in the screen. Less than three millimeters long, but still enough for me to be very annoyed with myself and cut up because Apple doesn't cover neglegence. All I can do right now is either leave it or take it to Apple and ask them to fix it. It's still under warranty. I might ring them tomorrow and ask them if I'm covered for this.

It's not the end of the world, but it's enough to make me think of my touch as way more fragile rather than indestructible.

I wrote this on my touch, with the crack. If I don't concentrate on it I can't even see it.
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Sent from a small mobile device designed in Cupertino. iPod touch.

33 Things You Don't Need If You Have An iPhone/Swiss Army Phone

2009-12-10T02:40:00.000-08:00

TUAW, don't slander me for advertising your blog on my blog. To everyone else, if you have an iPhone or are considering getting one (either that or an iPod touch), you may want to check this out.

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/19/buyer-s-guide-33-things-you-don-t-need-if-you-have-an-iphone/

May you never have to buy anything on that list again, unless you like your handwriting.

Swiss Army Phone! Or Swiss Army iPod in my case!

I'm Torn...

2009-12-10T02:33:00.000-08:00

...between Google Chrome and Safari. Which one shall I use and keep using? I love Safari 'cause it's Apple, it remembers my stuff and has all my bookmarks. I love Google Chrome 'cause it's great for shits and giggles, and loads stuff very fast. Like, very fast, once you load it once.

Now which one shall I use?

Aw, hell, I'll just alternate until I figure it all out. Besides, in a few days I hope to have a hackint0sh, and more on that later. Perhaps from my iPod touch. In the mood to make a post on it.

Song for this post: Stripped (Highland Mix) - Depeche Mode - The Complete Depeche Mode: DMBX3

Google Chrome!

2009-12-10T02:01:00.000-08:00

Song for this post: Hole To Feed (Radio Mix) - Depeche Mode - Fragile Tension/Hole To Feed

Yep, I caved. I downloaded Google Chrome.

If not for the themes, it was for the... well, it looks nicer than Safari, despite my love for Apple. The current theme I'm using? The Porsche one. Of course. Oh damn, no spellcheck on Chrome? Okay, that's a con.

When I started the download I was actually attempting to download a movie trailer (more on that later), meaning the download was gonna take a while. This is my first time I'm using Chrome, because it downloaded like... 10 minutes ago! Now for the actual review.

PT 1: "Web Pages Load Faster" Apparently.

Well, not so IMO. Depeche Mode's website took the usual amount of time with my capped internet, but hey. It did eventually load, and I saw the DM Fan Twitter Feed widgit for the first time. After I load a page, THEN and only then does the page literally jump to the screen. I kid you not, it went so fast... Safari never did that.

PT 2: Themes! Hot Damn, Themes!

I really do love the themes of Google Chrome. 'Nuff said.

Yeah, my techno-reviews really suck, don't they? I'll do a bit more testing and may elaborate later.

Why I love Depeche Mode!

2009-12-08T03:11:00.000-08:00

This is going to be a slight short post about something I read on Tumblr.

carolinabela:

Next time your band manages to make 136 thousand people put their hands in the air, you call me. *DM Pride*

Right here is the video. http://carolinabela.tumblr.com/post/274470517/next-time-your-band-manages-to-make-136-thousand

No, seriously, next time your band manages to make 136 thousand people put their hands in the air, call me.

This is why I love Depeche Mode, you see.

A collection of iPod wallpapers

2009-12-07T01:03:00.001-08:00

And here they are, all Depeche related.

Well, that's most of them.

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Sent from a small mobile device designed in Cupertino.

Themes, themes, and more themes!

2009-12-07T00:40:00.000-08:00

Well, damn, I didn't know that theme was gonna turn out well. Unfortunately it doesn't load well on my slower-than-dial-up internet connection but hey. After much cocking about with the themes and downloading about three, I settled on this one.

In other news, the next post will be a collection of various iPod touch wallpapers over the months.

I figured...

2009-12-06T23:22:00.000-08:00

...that I'd get back into blogging. This probably won't work and there's no doubt I'll give it up in a few days. But regardless, if a blog is for documenting what one did during the day or wants to complain about, here we go.

It's that time of the year again. Swim School. Something my school does every year at the end of the year (because here in Australia we get summer rather than winter during Christmas). Today I actually swam, we get 7 days of being at the pool. I missed out on the first two days (which was very very good, I listened to my iPod all day) but now I kinda have to swim. Oh well. My face feels like it's been burnt to hell and back, when in reality it doesn't like my goggles. Dammit.

For those that don't actually know me, I love Depeche Mode and you'll see quite a few mentions in this blog, either to them as Depeche or DM and many references to Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy Fletcher, as Dave, Mart and Fletch. So if I say something like "I was accompanied by Dave and Martin on my iPod..." you'll know what I mean.

Welcome to the place where I rant. You've been warned.