Happy New Year!
Tuesday, 1 January 2008
So, 2008. Welcome, and I hope you're as good - or, at least as memorable, for plenty of reasons, as 2007. And I hope that everyone reading this (yes, I'm implying that people do read this, but I like to try and start the year with some optimism) had a great year, a great New Year, and will have a fantastic next 12 months.
I graduated, for instance, and got a fantastic job. And I've been learning how to drive. So it's all good.
As for the New Year period, it's not been so great. My computer has broken - thank you, Windows XP Service Pack 3 release candidate - and I'm searching around for potential fixes and solutions at the moment. There's a few symptoms matched by people, and a few potential solutions, too. Some people, though, say that the only way to fix the problem is to do a complete re-format and re-installation of Windows onto the hard drive, which would lose all my files. And since this is my computer with everything on it since I bought it when I started uni, that would be pretty bad.
Not so bad in a losing things vital to my job sense, as everything I've done work-related on there I've emailed to people so Google will have it. But there's photographs, music, writing, Uni coursework, music, saved games and plenty else on there. Some people are suggesting changing settings in the BIOS, others think that Windows Repair will do the trick, so I'll garnish opinion from people at work and Mesh technical support - there's a hugely helpful chap called Davey on the official forms who appears to know everything in the world.
If worse comes to worse, I'll take the hard drive out and glean important files onto my mp3 player or something. So hopefully that situation will work out eventually.
All I wanted was to play Team Fortress 2.
I graduated, for instance, and got a fantastic job. And I've been learning how to drive. So it's all good.
As for the New Year period, it's not been so great. My computer has broken - thank you, Windows XP Service Pack 3 release candidate - and I'm searching around for potential fixes and solutions at the moment. There's a few symptoms matched by people, and a few potential solutions, too. Some people, though, say that the only way to fix the problem is to do a complete re-format and re-installation of Windows onto the hard drive, which would lose all my files. And since this is my computer with everything on it since I bought it when I started uni, that would be pretty bad.
Not so bad in a losing things vital to my job sense, as everything I've done work-related on there I've emailed to people so Google will have it. But there's photographs, music, writing, Uni coursework, music, saved games and plenty else on there. Some people are suggesting changing settings in the BIOS, others think that Windows Repair will do the trick, so I'll garnish opinion from people at work and Mesh technical support - there's a hugely helpful chap called Davey on the official forms who appears to know everything in the world.
If worse comes to worse, I'll take the hard drive out and glean important files onto my mp3 player or something. So hopefully that situation will work out eventually.
All I wanted was to play Team Fortress 2.
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