Still at it...

19:32.28 - Monday 4th September 2006   (Link to This Entry)

The weekend turned out busier than I had initially expected, what with the Red Bull Air Race on Saturday (cancelled due to bad weather - bah!) and a day out with M and my mother on Sunday. I didn't really have time to get into the Reformat and Reinstall beyond getting Windows on there.

I spent a long time hunting round for the driver floppy that came with my mainboard because it contained the SATA RAID drivers. Couldn't find the damned thing anywhere and then realised the drivers were probably on the CD anyway. They were, but I couldn't read any floppies at all until I opened up the case and found there was no power cable to the floppy drive. Sigh.

I got the machine formatted and installed Windows but made the mistake of plugging in my USB 2.0 Card Reader. For some reason, it worked initially but eventually the USB driver subsystem just folded in on itself and the drives disappeared. I initially got a BSOD every time I restarted - something about the Driver IRQ and usb???.sys - but it keps disappearing before I thought to write it down. I tried reinstalling the mainboard USB drivers but, nope, no go.

So I've basically reinstalled Windows again. I eventually went to bed after 1am having got Windows installed and all the patches applied. I think I'll plug the USB drive in as the very last thing and see if that helps - if it doesn't I'm pretty much screwed.

Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin killed by Stingray

19:58.14 - Monday 4th September 2006   (Link to This Entry)

This has been all over the Internet today in case you hadn't noticed. Steve Irwin, aka 'The Crocodile Hunter', was filming an underwater segment for his daughter's upcoming wildlife programme when the stingray he was following lashed out and struck him in the chest, piercing his heart.

Steve Irwin was one of those guys you don't really think about, and now that he's dead, the world seems a little dull, more subdued. Rest in peace, Steve, you crazy bugger.