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Back up again!

Well the blog was offline for a long long time – we had some major problems with the hard drives on the weblogs.us servers and the whole setup had to be taken offline. Finally up and running up again now and everything seems to be in place – many many …

I’m not dead (but it was close)

So almost unbelievably, I’m posting again, after a gap of (checks the site) 6 weeks :O. What happened? Ok, in chronological sequence: 1. Oblivion – TES IV sucked almost 3 weeks of my life. Mostly in figuring out how to get it to play on my laptop (Many thanks to asp …

Reflections on trashing my computer

So now that I finally have managed to restore my PC to more or less where it was before the crash, it’s time to reflect on the error of my ways. Lesson #1: The Windows XP default look is fine..really. Stop messing with it, when you know you are going …

Trashed my computer

In case anyone was wondering why my blog has been very quiet these last few days, it’s because I trashed my XP installation. I was playing around with a Vista Transformation Pack, a collection of hacks to skin your Windows XP to look like Vista. I didn’t wait long enough …