{ yesterday's tweets. }

( my milkshake brings all the tweets from the yard. )

LoudTwitter, innit?

{ this is the only L&O-related icon I still have. }

Oh boy.

So, last Wednesday my laptop started playing up, which is to say: it kept blue-screening me and wouldn't let me turn it on. I managed to fix that by getting it (eventually) to boot from my XP disc and it went well until Sunday night at which point it blue-screened again and then basically died. It looked like one of the partitions had been corrupted so yesterday I ended up doing the thing I didn't want to have to do: I ended up wiping the laptop, formatting the hard drive and re-installing XP. (I'm hoping to make the jump to Linux eventually but first I wanted to make sure it was just the partition that was damaged. That pretty much looks to be the case.)

I managed to find my installation discs but: no sound, and no wireless. That was around the time I realised that, duh, I hadn't installed all the drivers. But what to do: last time I installed drivers I did it straight through the internet and I don't have an Ethernet cable to link up my laptop. I could use the router directly with my laptop (as opposed to the home PC) but it's difficult getting to the right wires etc. So now I've hooked up my external to the PC and I'm downloading drivers from the Dell site onto that. Hopefully I can then plug that into my laptop and get myself sorted out. In the meantime: gr argh.

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I spent a couple of hours in a daze at the community centre yesterday morning and then went to the health centre to book an appointment with a doctor. ( M's ongoing war against her own skin )

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Lols, Law and Order: UK. Guys: IT'S REALLY GOOD. I mean. It's pretty much L&O but there are plenty of delightful things to it. The guv made a crack about being a Yummy Mummy! The CPS Head is A Bit Wacko! Bradley Walsh totes Jamie Bamber around whilst the latter fights his natural inclination towards RP! Ben Daniels/NICHOLAS BROCKLEHURST still makes for compelling viewing!* MARTHA JONES IS A TRES ATTRACTIVE, TRES SMART YOUNG LAWYER who has chemistry with many people! GUYS IT IS TERRIFIC AND I LOVE IT. I just have to remember that it's on, lols. Chung-chung!

*) daygloparker, have you seen The State Within? BECAUSE YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET ON THAT. I'm saying.

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Yesterday, whilst waiting for my laptop to purge itself, I watched this week's Being Human. I then freaked out massively about every plot turn. Quick! Someone hold me! Why did they only order up 6 episodes?!

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Anyway, am continuing to sort out laptop things; in the meantime I can (should) probably use this time to write my entry for picfor1000. And maybe consider what I'm going to post for in_a_name which I almost forgot about. I need to invest in a smartphone already, possibly a G1. I realised that I don't really use the laptop for more than its connectivity these days. Sure, I could do with having a small office package (word, data, maybe a presentation thing) and I like using PS, but I can get those online (well, gDocs, zoho etc.) and I don't know. I need to think about this some more.