Win32.Parite.B

07.18.2003

For months, my pc at home has been giving me trouble when I'm surfing the internet. Sometimes it'll take 10 minutes, sometimes an hour, but for no reason my browser will crash. IE, Mozilla, Netscape, it doesn't matter which I'm using, they all crash. I get a little crazy installing (and uninstalling, and installing again) components for browsers, so I was just guessing that I've done something stupid and now I'm paying the price.

This week the pc has been acting weirder. Whenever I boot up, the printer acts like it's going to print, then says "printing canceled". Yes, my printer speaks. EditPad was corrupted again Thursay, so I reinstalled it (again) and it worked fine.

Getting fed up, I fina't do anything to get rid of the blasted thing. I downloaded an app to get rid of the virus, but it looks like all it did was comment out an entry in the registry. It's finally scanning the files on the hard drives (and if it's like anything else, it'll take all night), but with any luck it'll get rid of the virus - and maybe I can surf crash-free yet again....

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More Random News Day

07.17.2003

Another Thursday, another group of soundbites that have caught my eye.

A Bitish woman who works in a muffin factory is suing over her boss wanting to see her boobies. Muffin factory? They have whole factories dedicated to the making of muffins?

Pravda is saying Tatu Duo To Split. Noooooooooo!

Is Prince moving to Canada? Nooooooooooooo!

4-Legged chick born in Delaware. That's a chicken, not a babe. Poor thing will never be able to compete in any 3-legged races.

And if you're tired of trying to find that something special on eBay, try Goth Auctions. It'll appeal to the high school drama nerd in everyone.

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Technical Difficulties Begone!

07.16.2003

After uninstalling and then reinstalling the webcam software and drivers, I was once again able to save pictures and can thus bring you a new camtoon.

Along the way, I had to re-install EditPad too. Maybe I've managed to get some kind of freaky virus?

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Technical Difficulties

07.15.2003

I got everything all ready to make new camtoons last night, and the weirdest thing happened. The camera wouldn't save the picture. I could take video, I could take stop-motion video, streaming videos, but no plain picture. I can see the image through the camera, so I know that it's hooked up.

I don't know if it's time to re-install the camera software. Maybe I've got too many USB devices plugged in (I think I've got about 10 things plugged into 2 hubs). Tonight I've got to switch some things around and see if I can figure out what I've done wrong. With any luck I can fix it and have a camtoon up tomorrow!

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07.14.2003

It's amazing how I can have so much going on (websites, work, more websites, catching up with Mom and Dr. Blondie over the weekend) and yet have absolutely nothing to say.

Bitterly ironic in some ways.

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