Lemme tell ya,

Posting everyday is harder than I thought. I don't think I'm cut out for seven posts a week. Looking back I see just how poor a job I've done just in the name of posting once a day. Well I think I'm going to dial it back a bit. Two or three posts a week is so much more than I have ever done and I think that at that level I can at least use complete sentences when I write.

Now thats not to say I won't write a little something every day. I have that expensive Microsoft Office program I've got to use for something. Hopefully I can keep doing it. The more I write the better I'll get, or at least thats what people tell me. Of course the fact remains I've got nothing really to write about. Guess that can't be helped. You have to go looking for something to write about and I don't really do that.

Guess the best thing I can write about right now is this computer giving me problems. I don't know what happened but my download speeds sunk to worthless. Laptop worked fine, a handfull of antivirus scans couldn't see an issue. Everything was slow in safe mode, too. Figured it was hardware related but every test I could throw at it came back with no failures. I've re-installed Windows and seem to have fixed the problem. My guess is it must have something to do with screwing with settings. Just when I had finally got Apache working to let me play with PHP without renting server space.

Had the problems started right when I had started with the server setup I would have blamed it right away but that wasn't the case. I watched as cascading failures relating to internet connected programs fell on me like a heavy rain. Started with streaming video, moved to Ventrillo, slowed World of Warcraft to a crawl, screwed with Ventrillo again but in a different way, then back to streaming video.

Each step of the way I would uninstall and reinstall. Return settings to default. I even changed firewall settings to only allow three programs to access the internet! I just never could track down the problem. Oh well. Solved now. Damn computers are the becoming the cause of a lot of problems around here. Routers go bad, internet goes wonky, hell I even have a hard drive in a laptop I'm going to have to replace soon.

Well at least I seem to have got things back up and working. I even learned a little about Windows 7 installation in the process. After spending an awful long time backing up documents, pictures, movies and music I found that the reinstall process saves just about everything for you. I guess its not a great idea to count on it, but there it was in 'Windows.old'. May never have noticed if it hadn't been for all the space taken up on the dive.

Learn a little something new every day I guess. Good to know that even if shit really hits the fan there MAY be a little reprive from data loss.