Posts from ‘November, 2007’

As I was viewing the trailers for upcoming film Beowulf, a sudden jolt of repulsion hit me. The graphics and cinematics were great… yes, it looked life-like, but it was too real (and yet, not real). Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins didn’t just look weird. They looked freaky. And I didn’t think “wow!”… I thought [...]

One thing I learnt last Saturday was that the cheer really goes “Oggy oggy oggy! Oi oi oi!” and not the “Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!” that my ears have automatically been trained to pick up on and respond to, and which I found sounded out of place when I first heard it being [...]

I think I went slightly mad back there, for I had to re-install Windows XP multiple times. The first time I did it, it gave me two options at systems start-up asking me which operating system I wanted to boot. There were two Windows XP Pros. Did some troubleshooting and it was the boot.ini file [...]

One thing led to another. Seriously, this is getting way out of hand, occupying entire days…
Hardly a few hours after Windows had started operating as per normal, it then began to act quirky. The title bar of whichever window I had open in Windows Explorer started flashing and getting out of focus, pulling up ‘My [...]

There is a teeny weeny bit of stubborn hope left but no joy, no joy at all thus far. Am working between my old S2020 (which has just powered itself off for no good reason) to look for solutions, and the current S7110 running Linux live to back up all my Windows files on the [...]

Yesterday afternoon, I was trial-and-error-ing with some freeware for removable media recovery. After a few rounds of installing and uninstalling new programs (since none of them seemed to work), I realised that the box that should appear when I right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer keeps failing to turn up, and instead, Windows [...]

When nothing else works for the moment, when there isn’t the time and the mental capacity to allow for that framing of the mind, for the the working out of the rationale of staying a hand or holding a tongue, and when you can’t do nought, it helps. As I’ve realised from time to time. [...]

I’ve heard of guide dogs for blind people (’seeing-eye dogs’) but not of hearing dogs before. Aye, shame on my ignorance.
We had visitors today during Cubs – a representative from the charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, as well as a lovely hearing-impaired lady and her even-lovelier hearing dog. Very impressed with them dogs… [...]