June 11th, 2008 Windows Live Writer! Again!

I stopped using Windows Live Writer when WordPress 2.5 came out, because as soon as that did, total support (at least on my end) for my blog was just about cut off.

I’m not sure if it was WLW’s fault, or WordPress, or just my own. But I installed the beta for the next update to WLW and alas! I can blog with it again! This makes me extremely happy while I’m on a Windows machine because this app is so nice! Very simple to use, to the point, pretty, and I just. I don’t know. I remember the first time using it and falling in love instantly.

Have you ever had that really weird geeky experience with a program / application / whathaveyou?

I’ll be blogging soon about my adventures in Livejournal and YouTube. Not that it’s very thrilling but I do have some things to jot down here! Later, all!

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June 4th, 2008 Vista Must Be Destroyed

It’s almost five in the morning and I’m half way done backing up my important data onto DVD-Rs and onto my wonderful Hello Kitty USB (note to self, buy a much bigger USB soon).

Too tired to moan about Vista. I’ll do that after I get settled back in.

Will keep this post updated for future Vista “AAAUUGGGH” that may develop. Goodbye and goodnight.

Edit #1: After a long while of thinking things over, I decided I really really dislike Vista and I wanted Windows XP back. So guess what? Downloading Windows XP now.

I know, I know. I suck for being a pirate. But do any of you have cash bursting from your purses or wallets? I know I don’t. If I can afford things, I’ll get them. If not, oh well. I’ll try to get it anyway.

I also don’t know if this will even work. Because you know, drivers and all. Would Vista drivers work on XP? I’m backing up my drivers now onto my already mentioned Hello Kitty USB

It will take some time getting used to XP again. After all, Vista does look a lot nicer. And there are minor features here and there that I liked better than XP. But overall? I can’t take it anymore. The file-eating, folder-erasing, ram-sucking bitch must die.

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May 16th, 2008 Dear Vista

Oh, Vista. How I’ve had it up to here (hand over head) with you. I’m so bloody tired and worn out trying to get this relationship to work. But it’s obviously one-sided. And you know what? I’m sick of being the one trying to make it work between us.

You’re like a big baby. I have to be taking care of you all the time. When we got together for the first time in April ‘07 I was actually giddy. You know me, I’m somewhat of a tech dork / girl. I thought “Oh my God, I have Vista on my notebook!” You were the cute new guy down the street most of us didn’t hate yet and were willing to flirt with you.

You were hot, with your awesome Aero look. And you were fresh, for some reason your parents (Microsoft) decided to rename a bunch of your folders and things and I thought “Well, sure. What OS doesn’t do a few name changes?” But you also had an attitude problem. Maybe I’m attracted to rebels? Not. You pissed me off from the beginning, not getting along with other programs. But I was blind and said “Hey, it’s my baby, okay? So he’s a little mean.”

You worked well with other programs thankfully after months. So I was relieved. But I also noticed I had to regularly clean out my closet because you kept storing so much crap (aka the damn shadow cache thing you have, you ate all my memory very quickly). So I had to keep reinstalling you until I figured out the problem. Thus banning you from storing your crap in my closets ever again (turning shadow cache off / system restore).

Things started to go really hazy between the two of us when you couldn’t even sleep well. You were paranoid and often “Blue Screen of Death”ed me after putting you to sleep or closing your case. You’re housed in a notebook. A notebook! How can you not go to sleep correctly?! That’s when the babying all began.

I gave you a wonderful firewall, wonderful antivirus, regularly scan you for adware and yet you decide to spit in my face and be all “I don’t need that” and get viruses anyway. I know you have a virus at the moment and I don’t give enough of a crap about you anymore to fix it. I really don’t. You’ve been one big problem after the other and I’m so tired of you.

I tried to cheat on you with Ubuntu (a distribution of Linux) but Ubuntu wouldn’t have it. Ubuntu wouldn’t work well with the sound card, maybe he felt bad for you. But there you have it, I’ve had a little fling with Ubuntu. I still much rather prefer Ubuntu’s company over yours any day of the week.

I know you’re insanely jealous too. With good reason, because everyone out there is better than you. Your older brother XP is better than you. Just about any distribution of Linux is better than you. BSD kicks your ass. OS X used to steal your lunch money and now he’s back to kick you in the groin.

But don’t fear, dear Vista. Don’t fear. When I get an iMac and hook up with OS X Leopard, I’m dumping your ass.

Love,
The crazy girl who’s pretending to write to an OS,
Munin

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May 16th, 2008 OCD And uStream

So, just a random post today. Because I’m watching eSushi’s uStream (I’ll explain later) and felt like blogging.

Again sorry for not blogging. I just haven’t had a huge want to do it. That and my modem broke.

I’m on wifi right now, stealing my neighbor’s wifi. Why? Well my modem broke. For some reason it doesn’t work connected directly to my brother’s PC, or through the router. It just works with my notebook connected. It’s really very strange.

But yeah. I just wanted to bring up OCD. I have a few weird habits I have to do every day or when I find the chance. I’m not sure why. But I’d like to see if you guys have quirky things you do?

For me? I count the numbers on the face of a clock. Over and over and over. I count lines too, like counting the lines of tile on the floor. My OCD-ness extends to counting things over and over and over. I can’t think of any other habits but that’s my weird OCD habit.

What’s yours?

Random note: Mitch (miiitch.com) is now streaming lately on uStream. I think it’s great. I so don’t have the cojones to do that at all. Well, for one I don’t have a good camera (1 megapixel). Secondly, I’ve been a bit stressed because of class. Studying. I look horrible. Messy hair all the time, when I’m home I’m in pjs etc. I look awful lol. Thirdly, I just don’t have the courage.

What would I stream on uStream anyway? My cat?

Mitch is like. Mah total win eSushi. Yeaaahs.

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March 31st, 2008 Bamboo!

Whoohoo, I received my Wacom Bamboo tablet in the mail today. I must say, I’m really happy with it! I haven’t drawn in a very long time so my drawing skills are far less “pretty” than I would’ve liked or hoped. But eh. With the tablet comes practice and working on my skills!

To be honest I don’t even remember why I stopped drawing. I just know I did and for a very long time. I just didn’t want to draw anymore. But recently I’ve seen reviews on tablets and I thought this would be a great opportunity to start back up again.

A tablet is a pretty neat thing. My twin brother described it quite nicely earlier “Now you have infinite printer paper”. I used to use up like all of our printer paper for drawing, ha! But he’s right, I have unlimited “paper” now and a way to color my paper as well. I was very relieved to find out that Photoshop 7 supports tablets and pen pressure. I had no idea it would, to be honest. I was prepared to have to find some other program (or actually pay for Photoshop CS. no to CS2 or CS3) for my tablet + drawing needs.

I plan to use this tablet to draw my little heart out and have it help me with my web design too. I’m not sure how the web designing bit would work yet, but it works like a dream when it comes to drawing. I had a lot of fun with it earlier. But I haven’t seriously tried anything though, just practicing.

And of course, here are my attempts: Attempt #1 and Attempt #2

I’m no artist but I still have some bite in me. I have full hopes that I can improve in my skills. Any pointers? XD

The tablet works quite well. It’s a lot easier to use than I thought it would be. I especially love the fact that you can use it as a regular mouse for your computer. Now, I’m new to tablets and I don’t know if that’s common. But man. I love it.

Plus it’s gorgeous. Once I get a job I plan to save up for an iMac and then for an Intuos3 6×8. I’m not sure what I’ll do with this tablet. It’s quite lovely and I love the smallness. Hmmm.

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