Ha. Ha. Haaaaaaa!

10:32.44 - Wednesday 5th November 2003   (Link to This Entry)

The BBC calls it "a crushing disappointment in almost every way", but the fans will flock to see Matrix Revolutions in the desperate hope that they're just messing people about a bit. Yes folks, it seems that the final installment in the Matrix trilogy sees the Wachowski brothers totally lose the plot as it decends into a mishmash of pretty effects, stunted dialogue and spiritual babble. Shall I spoil it for you? Oh go on then - Ctrl-A to reveal the more decipherable plot points in the box below:

Neo is not The One after all. Trinity Dies. The Humans and Machines come to a Truce.

Feeling unwell...

10:40.29 - Wednesday 5th November 2003   (Link to This Entry)

Seems I've finally succumbed to the flu/nose/throat bug that's been going around these past few weeks - I have the beginnings of a sore throat here and I can tell that it's not going to go away any time soon. I just hope it doesn't turn into one of those evil raw 'cactus in my gullet' (as opposed to 'frog in my throat') sessions that I've experienced before. :-(

Feck it. Fecking thing. Feck.

22:03.59 - Wednesday 5th November 2003   (Link to This Entry)

Gawd, what a carry on! I got a load of new bits from eBuyer this afternoon and they work fine, except that the driver CD for the mainboard was one of those cheap and nasty things that doesn't work in any full-size CD Drive under the sun. Lord knows why they work in my laptop, but they do, and so I copied it out onto CDRW - works now, doesn't it? *sigh*.

Then Windows98 on this desktop machine (not mine, thankfully) decides to throw a wobbler and completely dies. I get in touch with the owner and ask him if he had anything important he wanted backing up, but thankfully - praise be to Allah! - he'd taken my previous bit of advice and had saved everything important to D: with the exception of his Email. Makes life easier, but I'm currently archiving his entire C: drive anyway. Confidence? We've heard of it.

Then my laptop decided it was going to play up. I didn't notice this until tonight, but after I'd packed the router away and set up the machine to work on the Cable Modem directly, half my software started acting... odd: Dreamweaver MX wouldn't allow me to edit a site and then wouldn't allow me to cancel the requester that told me I couldn't edit the site (!); IIS decided it was just going to die completely and never ever start again, ever, and Outlook Express decided it would be a great idea to pause for a whole minute on loading so that I'd think it had crashed.

In the end, fed up of fighting with my laptop and being tethered to the desk in general, I dug out the router and the wireless card and plugged the whole lot back in. Ta-daaa... problems instantly solved. God I hate everything!

And it's not just me!

22:06.45 - Wednesday 5th November 2003   (Link to This Entry)

Mr.Foo has been spending more money as well, and is now the proud owner of an 802.11g wireless card and base station! He's cut the chord and can currently be seen wandering around his house muttering things along the lines of "Hmm... 73% signal strength under the bed in the back room!". I think he likes it :-)