It seems this is all we ever do when we have time off at the moment! Oh well at least it keeps her quiet and buys me some peaceful gaming time. :)
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Maternity shopping again
It seems this is all we ever do when we have time off at the moment! Oh well at least it keeps her quiet and buys me some peaceful gaming time. :)
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
New scan!
Just got back from the hospital. With a bunch of scary new images. Still don't know what we're having but if the magpies are to be believed it's a boy!
Quick post,
Just to say, it's scan day tomorrow, so all being well i'll have new photo(s) for the blog at the very least. :)
I've been really impressed with the Sony Ericsson K800i, i think the ability to "blog" while on the move is pretty fascinating, especially considering how good the camera is on the little phone. I'm just annoyed it's taken me so long to get the images moved over to this blog.
On a completely un-related note, wooooooo i finally hit lvl 49 in wow. My little Arraz is now concentrating on getting himself levelled up to join all the other players in the new content areas that were added with TBC.
The attunement stuff is confusing the hell out of me, all i want to do is spend some time levelling with friends, but as they're all 20 levels ahead of me still that's just not feasible. However i'm sure eventually i will catch up.
That'll do for now, no-one reads this anyway so it's more of a diary i guess. at least it's semi-theraputic!
I've been really impressed with the Sony Ericsson K800i, i think the ability to "blog" while on the move is pretty fascinating, especially considering how good the camera is on the little phone. I'm just annoyed it's taken me so long to get the images moved over to this blog.
On a completely un-related note, wooooooo i finally hit lvl 49 in wow. My little Arraz is now concentrating on getting himself levelled up to join all the other players in the new content areas that were added with TBC.
The attunement stuff is confusing the hell out of me, all i want to do is spend some time levelling with friends, but as they're all 20 levels ahead of me still that's just not feasible. However i'm sure eventually i will catch up.
That'll do for now, no-one reads this anyway so it's more of a diary i guess. at least it's semi-theraputic!
Monday, January 22, 2007
Well i'm buggered...
If it isn't a kidney bean all of my own!
Yeah, my updates have been none existent recently, mainly because i had a couple of concurring blogs, and for some reason couldn't get my mobile device to log the uploads to this blog. Though that's mostly my own ineptitude.
We've known about this since early November but i've decided to wait until saying anything until now. That scans from the 6th Nov and the kidney bean is currently now around 18cm's all being well. Next scan is on wednesday afternoon, i'll probably upload piccys then! :)
For now, that'll do :)
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Finally fixed!
Well it's taken a couple of weeks, but at last looseheads machine is back up and running in a stable state.
My original suggestion of replacing the PSU wasn't the solution unfortunately, so he's a little more out of pocket than intended, however it's a decent 480W PSU so if he does decide to upgrade it should be sufficient.
The source of the problem seems to have been a 5 year old IBM deskstar HDD. He was running on a 30GB HDD as for some reason i couldn't get the slave drive working alongside it originally. And it seems the issue is with the drive. However i still can't actually discover what the drive problem was... other than to describe the fault.
Intermittent "Freezing" at any point, when loading files, booting or basically doing things that accessed the HDD. Often the case "speaker" would let out a few warbles and beeps intermittently. However the strange thing is that sometimes the drive would run for anything between 1minute and 12 hours. That's partly why i thought it was a PSU issue, something voltage related.
I had the new drive up and running between 7pm Friday - 4pm Saturday afternoon without any issues. Hopefully that'll keep up and he wont have any further issues.
On a similar note, i'm thinking it's probably about time i formatted this machine again. It's been around 9 months since i got this machine up and running, and whilst i've not really noticed any significant performance drops there is some noticeable slowdown. To try and compensate for that i've been running spyware, registry and defrag utils on a weekly basis, which do appear to have improved the situation slightly.. but there's nothing quite like a fresh install to cheer a person up.
Perhaps i'll hold off until November or December and pick up one of the last dual core socket 939 chips, a slight upgrate to take me into the new year.. :) Not sure if the Dual core will make a big difference but at least it'll put me in a position whereby the next upgrade will have to be a big one (replacement gfx card for switch over to PCI-E) mobo, chip and ram. perhaps i'll go for an Intel chip next time, i've ben running an AMD variant for the last 6 years or so, i fancy a change.
My original suggestion of replacing the PSU wasn't the solution unfortunately, so he's a little more out of pocket than intended, however it's a decent 480W PSU so if he does decide to upgrade it should be sufficient.
The source of the problem seems to have been a 5 year old IBM deskstar HDD. He was running on a 30GB HDD as for some reason i couldn't get the slave drive working alongside it originally. And it seems the issue is with the drive. However i still can't actually discover what the drive problem was... other than to describe the fault.
Intermittent "Freezing" at any point, when loading files, booting or basically doing things that accessed the HDD. Often the case "speaker" would let out a few warbles and beeps intermittently. However the strange thing is that sometimes the drive would run for anything between 1minute and 12 hours. That's partly why i thought it was a PSU issue, something voltage related.
I had the new drive up and running between 7pm Friday - 4pm Saturday afternoon without any issues. Hopefully that'll keep up and he wont have any further issues.
On a similar note, i'm thinking it's probably about time i formatted this machine again. It's been around 9 months since i got this machine up and running, and whilst i've not really noticed any significant performance drops there is some noticeable slowdown. To try and compensate for that i've been running spyware, registry and defrag utils on a weekly basis, which do appear to have improved the situation slightly.. but there's nothing quite like a fresh install to cheer a person up.
Perhaps i'll hold off until November or December and pick up one of the last dual core socket 939 chips, a slight upgrate to take me into the new year.. :) Not sure if the Dual core will make a big difference but at least it'll put me in a position whereby the next upgrade will have to be a big one (replacement gfx card for switch over to PCI-E) mobo, chip and ram. perhaps i'll go for an Intel chip next time, i've ben running an AMD variant for the last 6 years or so, i fancy a change.
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