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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Okay, it's been ages since I blogged again, I didn't realise it'd been quite that long. Anyway, no one barraged me with emails about my dilemma, but that's okay, I've resolved it all now. We went to a computer fair at the leisure centre across the road on Sunday and I bought a new case. Helen Rob and I then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening taking computers apart and swapping bits round and reinstalling windows and finding drivers, ooh what fun. By the end of the day we had successfully built 2 computers that didn't work properly. Not including Simon who wasn't meant to work properly, what with having no hard drive anymore, though he has been left with a floppy drive. It wasn't too bad though, once we'd fiddled they were mainly working. My "new" computer is called Lucas. He is black and silver and looks like a mercedes, though at the moment his front lights aren't working. Don't worry, I'm sure they will soon. Some of the USB ports aren't working yet, but about 8 are, so it's not a major problem, I may have gone overboard on the firewire ports too since the motherboard has some and I added my card, so I have 9 ports, I only have one firewire device, so I think maybe I should put the card back into Simon. We can always put a hard drive in him and make a back up computer. I'd have to get an operating system for him though.

Had to phone Microsoft this morning, that was scary. Hate having to phone, but apparently I'd used my activation code to many times, what with reinstalling windows twice this year. Not sure why they make you phone, he didn't even ask me why I was reinstalling it again, I could easily have been adding it onto a different computer. Maybe it's just to scare you. Maybe they ask you if you keep phoning.

Anyway, as well as all that, Helen and I went down to her parents' on Monday, came back last night, so we've had a fairly productive bank holiday weekend. Saw Shaun of the Dead, it's very good. Can't say more now as am blogging in my break at work and time is up, so back to work I go.

Random observation of the day


When pointing out stupid spellings of place names in Leicester (Sunday 28th March) I actually failed to draw attention to the major one, it's so major it slipped my mind. It is of course Leicester, pronounced Lester. Mad I tell you

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