Higher and higher, ascending to the skies

[davidn]

Hello again, let's see what I can write in this. I've got back in to the routine of working, and it seems I'm getting a lot more than I used to - I've already worked fifteen hours this week since Tuesday.

Between making sandwiches and salads, I've also been attempting to clean up this computer. Two weeks in the hands of siblings can do all sorts of nasty things to a machine, but this one survived intact. There were a lot of seemingly superfluous programs that came with the computer, though (I try and never let my Start menu exceed one screen-height - it's like tidying a desk). So I started a clean-up plan. What happened was the following:

1. Remove "RealTek Sound" from the Start menu.
2. Decide that as it's a player I can safely uninstall it.
3. Realise that none of the computer's sound works at all.
4. Frantically search for the drivers CD.
5. Reinstall it and never touch anything ever again.

In happier news, my loan application has come back. My loan for next year is going to be approximately one fortune (that's 1298.97 all-day breakfast Tesco sandwiches). Apparently it's much to do with the fact that I will have a brother attending the same university. You see, siblings have their uses after all.

Comments

[tweeasfuck.livejournal.com]

This is why I got rid of the PC and moved the iMac in. Much less virus prone and easier than Win98 for me to stop them installing random shite onto it.

*wields power over all the house computers with fist of steel*

[davidn]

What I wrote above is nothing - you should see what's happened to the other computer on my desk. I'll write about that tomorrow...

[tweeasfuck.livejournal.com]

I can vaguely imagine- the viruses I had to remove from the PC, and the adware... nightmare.

[plette.livejournal.com]

That made me chuckle :)


And beware the deceptive appeal of the loan. They are clever, are dress themselves up all nice to lure you in and take your mind off the fact that you'll have to pay them back in a few years...

[kibet.livejournal.com]

in addition when they say it's interest free, interest does go on but it is hidden in the words "inflation". at the start, the amount i had to pay back was going up about £2 a month, at the end it was £20 a month. If i knew that then, i think i would have foraged for food rather than buying it.mmmmmmmmmmmm grass!!!

[madtom.livejournal.com]

Question. Would I like Iron Savior? If so, where should I get it, and which album?

[davidn]

I do love talking about this :)

Either you'll like Iron Savior or you'll just think they're silly - they have a plot running through their albums about a machine left to defend Atlantis. It reads rather like the script for an anime.

http://www.angelfire.com/retro/aurorasoft/WCBpersonal/IronSaviorPlot.txt

As for the music itself, they have a melodic style, aggressive but energetic rather than angry. You could say they sound like Iron Maiden, but happier and more upbeat. There are a few full free MP3s here, and more smaller samples of them on the same site.

http://www.noiserecords.com/mp3s/f-j.html