I formatted my laptop yesterday, so today there will be no design journal since I will be busy re-organizing and re-installing all my applications and drivers, however, I made a lot of changes during the weekend, so look forward to the next “Design Journal” post 
As everyone has probably noticed, Wordpress is giving me an unknown error. I don’t know what exactly is wrong…
The Apache version is quite old: 1.3.37 (Unix) therefore it might be that, but then again I’m not too sure. If anyone knows anything regarding this problem please tell me.
Update: the problem was the More Smilies plugin. Everything should be ok now.
Hello readers, some of you might be wondering why I haven’t been posting as much lately, and the reason is partially explained in the topic. Why partially? Well, because the it’s been a slow Anime season thus making it a bit hard to review new episodes.
In the meantime, I got a chance to finish watching an Anime I never saw before, Elfen Lied, and I’ll try to bring you a review very soon, hopefully tomorrow.
Thanks to my friend’s motivation I’ve decided to start my very first meme and see if it happens to catch on. So basically the intention is to find out what people have gotten from blogging. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a material possession, it can be something like a new job, or a reference in your community, or simply a personal achievement.
Blogging has given me:
There are also other things which aren’t material, but have helped me a lot over the past year. Blogging has allowed me to take my mother out for dinner for instance, which was something that I always wished to do. It has also allowed me to give my girlfriend a special gift from time to time.
In terms of personal achievement, even though I don’t intend on following journalism as a career, it has allowed me to take advantage of the writer’s vein from my father, who was a journalist for the longest part of his career, and my mother that was also involved with journalism.
David Peralty, what has blogging given you?
After submitting this blog to the [tag]9rules[/tag] network I noticed that their title page changed with each refresh, and with each one, showed one of the original 9 rules from their 1993 homepage:
Though I think that rule #8 is mostly a consequence of #2, I agree with all the rules. And, I’ve been following some of them without even knowing that 9rules had “adopted” them as their own.
Though this isn’t new (at all), I think that it’s nice to review some good mottoes for your life, from time to time.
Just in case you’re wondering which rules are the ones I try to follow, they are #1, #2, #3 and #6. Not that I don’t follow, or disagree with the others, but these are just the ones I “emphasize” the most daily.
Sorry if you ran into any problems accessing the page during the update, but everything should be alright now.
As you may or may not know already, I’ve been working a bit on the version 2.0 of this website. Originally, I wanted to use Wordpress as the content manager, however, due to the different data I wanted to put on the sidebars, I ended up using static pages. This time around, I’ll adopt Wordpress fully on all the pages, and I intend to “break” some of the barriers of the site and give it more white space compared to the current design.
Here’s a sneak peak at the work-in-progress header.
I think that everyone and anyone who has already update a firmware for any hardware they own always get a bit stressed by it. Specially when it happens to be a slow process.
Well, today I decided to update my cellphone’s firmware (the SE k750i) and I started to completely stress out. I seem to be having some problems with my power box. And whenever too many things are on it starts emiting a small buzz. But it hardly ever happens.
Just when I decided to start the firmware update, it decided to start buzzing. So I started running all around the house shutting down every light and everything else connected to the electricity. Thankfully, nothing bad happened, and the phone is updated and working perfectly, but it certainly gave me a big fright. Next time I update the firmware of any external hardware I own it will definetely be on my laptop.
Well, it’s been a while since I wrote here. But there’s a very good and legitimate reason for that.
After months of torture, brainwash and daily conversations about it, my friends have finally done it. They got me playing World of Warcraft. And I’m enjoying every second of it 
Things should get back to normal once I lose this inicial urge to play the game. In the meantime, feel free to drop me a message on Grim Batol (Europe), my main’s name is “Guts”. I’ll see you, or kill you, there
Today I called up Vaio-link, the sector responsible for Sony laptop and PC repair. And let me say that I was surprised, not in a negative, but a positive way.
The lady that attended me was very nice, she didn’t seem like your average secretary which knows absolutely nothing about PCs and she was able to understand the problem and report back (after getting confirmation) that the laptop was indeed still under warranty.
So, I’m going to be completely laptopless for a couple of weeks, but at least I’m happy that I can have the problem solved. So thumbs up to Sony, they won a few points in my consideration, at least their assistance service did.
[tags]Sony, Vaio, Vaio link, vaio warranty[/tags]
