No, I haven't actually wasted that many hours of my life on a certain RPG. Rather, this is my 60th post on Happy Desolation. As you can see, I decided to celebrate with a new blog layout(Shit, do I know how to party or what?). Anyway yeah, its back to school for me.
School is not treating me very well at the moment. Nor am I treating it very well. As such, I propose to hack the school's network.
Ok, fine...maybe thats a bit too extreme. Still doesn't make it any less fun though. lol. What I really want though, is for June to come. By June, this damn school should be just a distant memory in the haze of cigarette smoke, liquor, loose women and computer parts. Oh well.
CAPE Unit 1 (thats the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exams) is coming up within like 2 months, so just like during CXC time, I won't be blogging as much. There might also be a surprise coming up for all you loyal readers.
Write to you guys later!!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Microsoft Word 2007 is a B****
So kids,here's my latest bitching topic. I'm working on my Chemistry project which I got for the holidays. I'm on the second to last topic, so I'm almost finished. Out of force of habit, I press Ctrl+S to quick save on a regular basis(like every 10 minutes or so).
So I press it, and it brings up the huge "Save As" dialog box. I decide to refrain from cursing at that point and just save over the document, which would have the same effect as the quick save. It's located on the base C:\ drive. I click the button. The little green bar on the status bar at the bottom of the screen fills pretty quickly, then it appears again. About 85% of the way through it stops and tells me there is an error in saving chemproj.docx. I curse.
My little brother hears me and laughs.I decide to try it again. Hmph. Same f**king thing. I decide to outsmart Microsoft and copy the entire document to an empty word document and saving it. Didn't make a scrap of difference. I got an error there too. Shit. I do a bit of googling for a solution, since I typed a lot and I don't want to have to retype it.
I see somebody talking about disabling their firewall and antivirus. I'm skeptical, but desperate, so I try it. Nope, no such luck.
I resign to my fate of losing the 3 paragraphs I wrote. I close it, and give up for a few seconds. I decide to open a blank document, type some crap, and see if it will save. It does. I decide to try saving my project again. It doesn't. >_<
I scream, and try the tactic of copying the whole document to a blank file again. I save it to My Documents, and somehow it works.
Its pretty damn weird.
Right now however, I'm just thankful that it worked. I'll figure out the issue later. There is no way I was planning to lose 3966 words of information that was hell to find.
*Sigh*
Oh well. I just had to let it out. I also did a Twitter post about it. For those of you who don't know, besides being an aspiring computer programmer/neurosurgeon, I also want to be a PUA. You can see the Twitter status update on my other blog.
Thats about it still, so I'll write up something some other day. Wish me luck on the project.
So I press it, and it brings up the huge "Save As" dialog box. I decide to refrain from cursing at that point and just save over the document, which would have the same effect as the quick save. It's located on the base C:\ drive. I click the button. The little green bar on the status bar at the bottom of the screen fills pretty quickly, then it appears again. About 85% of the way through it stops and tells me there is an error in saving chemproj.docx. I curse.
My little brother hears me and laughs.I decide to try it again. Hmph. Same f**king thing. I decide to outsmart Microsoft and copy the entire document to an empty word document and saving it. Didn't make a scrap of difference. I got an error there too. Shit. I do a bit of googling for a solution, since I typed a lot and I don't want to have to retype it.
I see somebody talking about disabling their firewall and antivirus. I'm skeptical, but desperate, so I try it. Nope, no such luck.
I resign to my fate of losing the 3 paragraphs I wrote. I close it, and give up for a few seconds. I decide to open a blank document, type some crap, and see if it will save. It does. I decide to try saving my project again. It doesn't. >_<
I scream, and try the tactic of copying the whole document to a blank file again. I save it to My Documents, and somehow it works.
Its pretty damn weird.
Right now however, I'm just thankful that it worked. I'll figure out the issue later. There is no way I was planning to lose 3966 words of information that was hell to find.
*Sigh*
Oh well. I just had to let it out. I also did a Twitter post about it. For those of you who don't know, besides being an aspiring computer programmer/neurosurgeon, I also want to be a PUA. You can see the Twitter status update on my other blog.
Thats about it still, so I'll write up something some other day. Wish me luck on the project.
Monday, December 29, 2008
The New Year's Nerd
Well, I finally did it.....Sort of.
I've partially purged myself of Microsoft's sin. I've dual booted Ubuntu 8.10 on my computer. I still have XP (since most of the things I use are on Windows), but I have Linux. Gotta keep my options open, y'know?
Ubuntu is damn pretty. It proves that you don't need fancy hardware acceleration and transparent menu bars to have a good looking GUI. I love how Python is so tightly integrated with the Ubuntu shell. In fact, if it weren't for the games I have on Windows, I'd gladly switch to Ubuntu at any time. Now if only I had a credit card so I could donate.
I've grabbed most of the apps I think I'll need(namely Blender, The Ur Quan Masters, Anjuta IDE, plus some plugins). The only problem I've had so far is with the sound and getting a recent version of Flash Player, but its cool, I'll have them fixed WAAAY before the New Year.
Well, I most likely won't be updating tomorrow...so Happy New Year when it comes!!
Later,
Gavin
I've partially purged myself of Microsoft's sin. I've dual booted Ubuntu 8.10 on my computer. I still have XP (since most of the things I use are on Windows), but I have Linux. Gotta keep my options open, y'know?
Ubuntu is damn pretty. It proves that you don't need fancy hardware acceleration and transparent menu bars to have a good looking GUI. I love how Python is so tightly integrated with the Ubuntu shell. In fact, if it weren't for the games I have on Windows, I'd gladly switch to Ubuntu at any time. Now if only I had a credit card so I could donate.
I've grabbed most of the apps I think I'll need(namely Blender, The Ur Quan Masters, Anjuta IDE, plus some plugins). The only problem I've had so far is with the sound and getting a recent version of Flash Player, but its cool, I'll have them fixed WAAAY before the New Year.
Well, I most likely won't be updating tomorrow...so Happy New Year when it comes!!
Later,
Gavin
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas: The Official Post Mortem of Ebenezer Scrooge
Well, this was a pretty good Christmas in terms of loot. I got a stack of 25 blank DVDs, a can of axe, and most importantly a new cell phone. Its a Samsung...something...blah, can't bother to go look at the box now. lol.
As it pertains to my Communication studies IA, which I may or may not have mentioned in a previous post, I'm making pretty good progress.If I were a studious person, I could be finished by the day after tomorrow.
But alas, I regret to inform you that I am not a studious person. I'll be finished by like next week Monday, I guess.
If you're lazy(like me) and can't bother to read everything up top, but you had to read this text due to its coloration, just watch the video below to summarize how my day was.
This song is called "Today Was a Good Day" and its by Ice Cube. Its one of the songs in the soundtrack for GTA: San Andreas, which I have been playing a lot of lately.
I've also been playing Red Alert 3. That game is so much DAMN FUN!! I mean, its a ridiculous excuse to revitalize the careers of some porn stars and B-movie actors, but damn, it is FUN!!
Oh, and I think my balls are getting bigger. I'm also learning how to grunt. The reason? Gears of War. There is so much testosterone in that darn thing, I'm jealous. I think that game may be applying peer pressure(Is that even possible?). I tried it on the recommendation of a friend, and despite getting killed every second wave, I love it. The Lancer, with the chainsaw bayonet is so cool. Its officially cooler than the plasma sword in Halo(although that can't compare to the Sword of Mana).
Before I'd go, I'd just like to address the fact as to why this sounds different from my other posts. The reason is because in this post, I actually have SOMETHING to talk about, as opposed to many others, where I'm just giving you, my dear reader, reassurance that I'm still alive.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone, including those who live in timezones where its still Christmas Eve and those who live in parallel universes that don't celebrate Christmas, and all the Ebenezer Scrooges who wish it weren't Christmas.
As it pertains to my Communication studies IA, which I may or may not have mentioned in a previous post, I'm making pretty good progress.If I were a studious person, I could be finished by the day after tomorrow.
But alas, I regret to inform you that I am not a studious person. I'll be finished by like next week Monday, I guess.
If you're lazy(like me) and can't bother to read everything up top, but you had to read this text due to its coloration, just watch the video below to summarize how my day was.
This song is called "Today Was a Good Day" and its by Ice Cube. Its one of the songs in the soundtrack for GTA: San Andreas, which I have been playing a lot of lately.
I've also been playing Red Alert 3. That game is so much DAMN FUN!! I mean, its a ridiculous excuse to revitalize the careers of some porn stars and B-movie actors, but damn, it is FUN!!
Oh, and I think my balls are getting bigger. I'm also learning how to grunt. The reason? Gears of War. There is so much testosterone in that darn thing, I'm jealous. I think that game may be applying peer pressure(Is that even possible?). I tried it on the recommendation of a friend, and despite getting killed every second wave, I love it. The Lancer, with the chainsaw bayonet is so cool. Its officially cooler than the plasma sword in Halo(although that can't compare to the Sword of Mana).
Before I'd go, I'd just like to address the fact as to why this sounds different from my other posts. The reason is because in this post, I actually have SOMETHING to talk about, as opposed to many others, where I'm just giving you, my dear reader, reassurance that I'm still alive.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone, including those who live in timezones where its still Christmas Eve and those who live in parallel universes that don't celebrate Christmas, and all the Ebenezer Scrooges who wish it weren't Christmas.
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