Kree’s Den

My laptop’s HDD is dead.

I have backups, but they’re heavily out of date. So all my recent stuff is (hopefully temporarily) lost. This includes my assignment, but at least I have a cruddy ol’ USB stick with a week-old backup…

So yeah, I’m kinda screwed for a while…

It’s kind of ironic, I was planning to actually do a backup and finish off things like updating the website after the assignment/exam period… damn…

So yeah, I’ve been spending most of my free time lately reading pages upon pages of news. Maybe this is some latent symptom from my lack of book reading. I can’t help it, the Brisbane Library only just opened recently! Just for kicks, here’s the major snares:

• Engadget - If anything happens in the tech world, it’s here
• Joystiq - Like Engadget, but with more game
• Hack A Day - They like to hack stuff :P
• WiiNintendo - Wii-related news
• This Is Broken - Yay for finding faults with the world
• Jarkolicious - The yellow alien, co-founder of dA, and a swell blogger
• Starslip Crisis - Kris Straub’s daily sci-fi webcomic
• Halfpixel - Yet more Straub. That man has talent out the wazoo
• Penny-Arcade - Quality gamer webcomic
• Player Vs. Player - Quality not-quite-gamer webcomic
• Ctrl+Alt+Del - Yet another gamer webcomic
• and of course deviantART…

Automated news feeds can get addictive I tells ya!

Blargh, I won’t yammer on about how crap I am for not updating/being active. I’ve done it so much it’s become old hat now.

So aaaanyway, I’ll see if I can get myself active enough to finish off those sketches I promised on dA.

Also, I’m thinking of making some sort of e-cards to give out for christmas. Since the mail system will be way too clogged for real stuff, and since I’m also gifted at programming, hopefully it’ll be pretty fun.

I’d also like to make some sort of e-tree to let people stick decorations on, but I might not be able to get something like that done for christmas :S

PS. If you were wondering about those photos of my tablets, they’re here and here…

Bad news :( My precious tablet’s cable died again, just like it did before, and now I can’t rely on some (shoddy) replacement under warranty thing. So now I’m going for a completely radical, exciting and also slightly terrifying plan of replacing the cable with a USB Type B connector. This means I’ll be able to remove or replace the cord whenever I want.

Me and my dad stole the Type B connector off a dead printer, and we’ve already cut a hole in the case to fit the new connector in. I thought about taking pictures, but it’d be a lot more rewarding to take pictures once it’s completed. All that’s left is to attach the connector to the tablet’s innards and glue the new connector in place.

I can’t wait to finish it and get my precious tablet back :P

Edit: Yay! Got it fixed :)

This is definately one of those “must tell” moments.

Here I was, idly doing stuff on my laptop. Being a cold night I was wearing my bath robe over the top of my regular clothes to keep warm. This is one of those robes that look like a fluffy blue monster. Add that to sitting on a plasticy chair on top of a plastic floor mat and you don’t need to be a genius to know what tends to build up…

Anyway, up I get to go to the bathroom, and as I reach for the keyboard to type “brb”, a static charge zaps into the keyboard, and voila! My monitor goes black. At this point all I can think is “crap…“. After some pointless flailing at the buttons for a bit and expecting the worse, I ended up powering down the laptop (since I can’t see what the computer’s doing O.o).

And to my relief the LCD monitor wasn’t busted when I powered up again. I was freaked out for a minute there though, one lousy robe coulda cost me a new monitor, or more likely a whole freaking new laptop. So in conclusion, don’t wear fluffy robes in front of your computer if your standing on something not grounded XD.