Anyone regularly reading my posts on twitter (still not comfortable with ‘tweets’ instead of ‘posts’ for some reason) might have noticed two odd ones back to back:

I take back every nice thing I said about Windows 7. My ATI drivers won’t install, so I can’t play Fallout 3. Dealbreaker, back to XP.

And later:

I take back everything bad I said about Windows 7. Got Fallout 3 working after all, a driver issue, which I suspected, VERY hard to fix.

This might be the first thing you want to do. Windows 7 automatically grants itself the option to restart itself without your confirmation after installing updates. It puts a little notification up over the status icons, but if you’re like me you’ll think it’s asking to restart. I closed it, figuring I didn’t tell it to restart, so it wouldn’t. Nope, it was just telling me it would restart in 10 minutes, and since I didn’t pay enough attention and choose to delay that, I lost a lot of changes I was making to an image for work. (Re: the link–I used the option to edit group policy from that page)

I don’t know anything about the website I linked to, I’m not endorsing it at all, it’s just the first result in Google and it had the fix I was looking for.

Lark

Thinking about my previous post, and Beloit, Kansas’s courthouse having a screen door (which isn’t a big deal by the way, just unexpected), I was reminded of my brother’s future plans for his nursery.

They have four cats, I think, and just had a baby. To keep the cats away, but so they can still hear the baby, they are planning on putting a screen door on their nursery. That’s actually a good idea, but that didn’t stop me from remarking that it would be the most trailer trash nursery ever.

Phase 2 of their plan? Leaving the screen door on the child’s room until he’s 18. That’s how Jesus would want it done.

Oh noes! I just realized that if my brother searches for “screen door” and “nursery,” he’ll come across my super-secret blog! I hope he doesn’t see the picture on my “About” page, that’d really cement his suspicions that this blog is in fact run by…his BROTHER. (cue organ music)

I am not in Beloit, this is something I wrote months ago, before I had a phone I could go online with (thus the obsession with wifi access). I just now stumbled across this and decided to post it for the hell of it.

Greetings from Beloit, Ks. I had to stop through on business, business meaning someone I know has paid me to drive to Beloit (they broke their leg) and I have hours to kill while they’re in appointments.

I spent a little bit of time in the courthouse. Interesting fact about the Beloit courthouse–it has a screen door. Am I the only one who finds this strangely amusing? A courthouse with a screen door. I’m not sure, it may be the back door, but it’s got steps and signs and stuff, it’s a courthouse door.

Is it just me, or are Google’s ads getting better and better? More dead on? Better at delivering ads to me that I am interested in?

I’m the type of person that never clicks ads. Probably ruined by those old banners for free Ipods or “You’ve just won a free !!!” Obvious scams. Now in the past month I’ve clicked on 4 ads. 1 on a web page, 1 from a Google search result, 2 from youtube videos.

I could be that the more I understand about Google’s ads, and how they work, the more I’m trusting of them. It’s relative cheap and easy for anyone to throw their ads in the mix. Also, I’ve seen a lot of ads for business and products I know are legitimate. It’s a definite possibility that the difference is me.

Anybody else?

Lark

I’ve got it. I did get it, 4 days ago. It’s tag system is different. I thought I was tagging all my recent posts. I wasn’t (Apparently am supposed to click Add, not just fill in the form and hit Publish). I had to re-do 12 posts. 12 posts in 4 days, that’s got to be a record for me. Hope I keep it up.

Lark

PS – I know I’ve just revealed which version of WordPress I use, which is a security hole. But maybe I’ve reverted to an earlier version because I like the old tagging system. Did I? Did I? Hmm?

PPS – Just messed it up again, and had to go back and properly tag this post.

I’ve been fiddling around with a twitter badge of some sort for this blog. I’ve gone back and forth for a few reasons. Mostly, I couldn’t find any to fit on my page, but I’m taken aback by the fact that a lot of people are adamantly anti-twitter. These people are probably also the assholes that were anti-cell phones five years ago. Instead of realizing they’re unable to overcome their hatred of anything new in order to properly determine the usefulness of a new product or service, they continue to bash everything.

Wow, was that defensive or offensive? I CONTINUE:

I have been busy, but not too busy to quickly drop a pity post. I pity all of you with nothing better to do than read this. More interesting posts to come, I promise.

xoxo
Lark