Return of the Mack
The boy McCoy has returned from a less-than-brief trip to the old sod. He brought Dairy Milk chocolate! And I can finally borrow his copy of Ice Age! No, wait, I can't! My computer's fucked! Again!
A curtailed defrag on Sunday evening led to general non-bootingness on Monday morning. Much sniffing around today with diagnostic thingies etc established that (wait for it) the hard drive had indeed gone a tad pear-shaped, so we boot into DOS and run Scandisk, which has the effect of removing offending cross-linked clusters. Unfortunately, files residing in said clusters turn out to have been some rather valuable Windows system files. So, in short, the HD is now okay but Windows needs to be reinstalled. Since all I got from MS was a stupid-ass recovery CD (which re-installs the OS and helpfully wipes all your other data), I may just be giving Redmond the finger and opting for a real Win98 CD.
Every day, my heart moves a little bit closer to Linux. Soon as it can play DivX and .mov files, it'll be rm -rf /mnt/win/windows/*...
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This is LeSinge.org v3.0. It's on its sixth* server since I registered the domain name in November of 2000 and it has gone through several drastic facelifts in that time, usually prompted by some cataclysmic event like someone deleting a load of files they shouldn't, or a server being shut down. This is the maddest layout yet; I'm trying to fit the entire weblog (apart from diary archives and the gallery) into a single loading page using all sorts of PHP-generated DHTML jiggery-pokery. The idea is to make it more inviting to look around since there's no loading between "pages". It's still a work in progress (more a proof of concept than anything), so be patient!
I'm Dave Whyte, an Irish CS graduate, German speaker, linguist and incredibly talented web developer. I'm originally from Fermoy but I now live in Newbridge with my wife Beth and our son. I'm currently working for these fine folks and enjoying it greatly.
"The Monkey"? Eh?
My nom de guerre comes from an old Eddie Izzard comedy sketch.
Contact me!
- Email - me @ this domain name (I had the catch-all disabled, with instant results)
- Gmail - dwhyte
- MSN - lamerthanjesuschrist at hotmail.com
- ICQ - 230670372
- AIM - lamerthanjchrist
- Yahoo! - jenesuispasunepoutaine
- Skype - daveandbeth2004
Or: Meebo me!
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Dear Americans...
Blogsam & Linksam
- I know you got yourself a skinny ol' man
19/11/2008 via gimme a minute - Chocolate Fudge Pie Chart
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17/11/2008 via Jessica - Scratch Input and Low-Cost Multi-spectral material sensor
14/11/2008 via Johnny Chung Lee - Dance Fail « FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments
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14/11/2008 via http://belledejour-uk.blogspot.com/ - "New Lead Singer" - Fri, 14 Nov 2008
14/11/2008 via http://sinfest.net/ - Church
13/11/2008 via Black Hockey Jesus - "Your Corporate Masters" - Thu, 13 Nov 2008
13/11/2008 via http://sinfest.net/ - Google Flu Trends: Tracking Flu across the U.S.
13/11/2008 via http://feeds.infosthetics.com/ - I Bet My 40s Are Totally Going To Rock | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
12/11/2008 via http://www.theonion.com/ - Naughtiest Dilbert Comic Ever?
12/11/2008 via http://dilbert.com/ - HSE sternly reminds woman about how much her ill son cost the state
11/11/2008 via Damien - Lies, Damn Lies and Statins
11/11/2008 via Dr* T - The Matrix Windows Style
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