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Entries from June 2007

A happy news chaser, to clear your palate.

June 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments

I bought a 30GB iPod yesterday to replace the one I lost. I also bought a new pair of Sennheiser CX 300 earbuds ($40 and they're the best I've ever owned). With the store points I collected from that purchase, I picked up an expensive and beautifully crafted and designed leather case for a mere [...]

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So disgusting that I have to share it

June 28th, 2007 · 22 Comments

Yesterday on the train ride home I was smooshed up against a middle-aged man with a head full of dandruff the size of corn flakes. But that's not the gross part. The rotating ceiling fan was blowing them off his head and onto other commuters. I was this close to shrieking like a little girl.

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Fixed!

June 13th, 2007 · 16 Comments

Nothing too interesting here, but I managed to fix my home PC this morning. I guess the C drive is starting to crap out intermittently. It probably got stuck or overheated, and when the machine rebooted the BIOS couldn't find it and promoted the next drive on the list to startup. All I had to [...]

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I need some computer help

June 11th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Booting my home PC by using an Ubuntu live CD shows that all my drives are OK. The problem is that Windows XP isn't booting, as if either the C drive's boot sector is toast or the system directory is somehow corrupted. All I see after the BIOS boots is a black screen with a [...]

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