It’s been a while since I posted, hence the emphasis of the date as a title. Heaps of school work been going on, as highlighted in previous posts, and that I blame for the lack of posts. Today’s weather was wretched - the winds were blowy, the rain was wet and umbrellas turned from being jellyfish to squid (i.e., they turned inside-out). Actually rainy days are quite funny; for example today, Jeremy doesn’t know how to handle an umbrella which resulted it to turn inside out. His dismal attempt to turn it back to normal was very funny - so-much-so I nearly lost control of the sphincter muscle which keeps urine from pouring out of my bladder. I still hate rain more than I love it. When I arrived home, I was like a sponge - water was absorbed throughout my clothing; shoes became mini lakes of water and hair became emo-like. Hm, yes it’s the walk to and from school which I dread the most on rainy days.

I also obtained some misc gadgets off Trademe. I bought a lovely designed netgear wireless modem/router, model DG-824G and a really nice S+ARCK mouse - however I wished I could have obtained a blue one of these. The Starck mouse is a collaborated effort between Microsoft and world-famous designer Philippe Starck; an attempt to create a revolutionary mouse. Looks really nice, have a look. Oh, and like always, I like to take apart things before I use them. On this occasion dismantling the mouse was harder than anticipated - the hemisphere buttons actually clipped out sideways from the mouse.

See you, see you later, it’s time to say goodbye… eh-no-hora I’m leaving, I really got to run, so… etcetera.

After carrying out an infinate number of tests, I have singled down the problem to be either the Processor at fault or the Motharboad. I am pushing my luck and saving myself from a hole being burnt through my wallet by ‘purchasing*’ a new Motherboard — Which means time to reformat.

*Disclaimer: I am not actually buying the motherboard but rather just paying for the shipping fee.

So here’s how the story goes:
One day I decide to buy some more ram (512mb) to boost my system capabilities. And so I did - 512 ram PCI 3200, 400mhz @ $72 NZD with warranty etc, then I install it onto my computer and see no performance change. So I swapped it with my 333mhz 512 ram which was in slot 1 suggestign that it may boost performance (as they say put the larger or faster ram in slot 1). Yeah and I restarted my computer and it CRASH o.o - I then changed the ram back then booted - had like that disk error checking and said that some system file was corrupt - well it fixed that then everything worked fine. But then everything seemed to go down the cliff - first windows started up without detecting my graphics card (by teh way my heart rate was at about 150 bpm) then my Counter-strike files became unplayable and then today my explorer.exe kept crashing every time I opened a notepad file (although its okay now) - So yeah oh yeah my start up time also slightly increased. So therefore I am contemplating reformatting - I have backed everything up and everything is good to go - all I need to do is wait for Hugo to come back from Japan to supply me with his Windows XP with corporate edition cd key…