Name:Giles Country:United States State:Missouri Metro:Blue Springs Birthday:2/20/1987
Interests:Slacking, in all forms. This one tall-blonde-chick, AKA Lauren. Expertise:Sleeping, Procrastinating, Relaxing, Pimping, Computers, DDR, Gaming...et cetera, et cetera, et cetera... Occupation:Student Industry:Web Administration/Computer En
I haven't updated this in a while...Therefore, I think it's time to "shut down" this Xanga. I no longer have the time nor want/need to post here. Besides, no one really comes by anymore. Only web crawlers and the like.
I'll leave it up, but I doubt if I'll ever update it again. (The subscription ends in 3-4 months, so it'll look like junk after that.) People don't really use this anymore anyway. It's all about Facebook and MySpace these days, anyway. While I don't always like to follow the crowd, it's hard not to keep up with the times. These are just fads anyways.
Besides, I'm on Facebook. If you really want to get a hold of me, that's where you'll find me. (Fuck MySpace - it's just a waste of internet space. A HUGE waste of space...But then again, that's what I initially said about Xanga).
So I guess this is the last post on AzN_Ho.ChaoticReflctions.Xanga. It's been a great run for the last 3 years or so. I hope everyone enjoyed my rants, raves, random entries, and whatever flowed from my mind, through my fingers, and on to your screens. Thanks for all the comments, suggestions, advice, and etc. from over the years.
So without further ado...
I bid you...
...Adeiu.
See you around.
-Giles, The One and Only, The AzN_Ho
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Final Quote: "Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are friends." -Richard David Bach
Personally, in such an age of digital information and technology, I do not understand how people can be so stupid when it comes to computers. Windows, and most other GUI OSs, have been so dumbed down. All you have to do is double-click and "voila!" there it is. I realize that I was born in the digital age and have been working with computers since I was about 5 years old. But to not be able to save documents, open programs, browse the internet, and use e-mail - the most basic of the basic - is just ridiculous.
People just freeze up when they see a computer, like a deer in the headlights. Why be afraid of the computer? It can't do anything without the person. Especially when all the user interfaces are so easy to use, there should be no reason to be afraid of it.
These are the people who need to be in my CSIS 110 class, not me. These are the people who need to learn how to turn on/off computer, what the internet does, how to open programs, save/edit documents, etc.
I don't understand how these tech guys can handle this. I really don't. Sadly, helping mom do e-mail (EVERYTIME) pisses me off.
*sigh*
Sorry, just a rant from an experienced computer user...
My laptop decided to crash today. Only 4 months ater I bought it, I had to unwillingly reformat and recover the HD. Strangely enough, this happens after I defrag the HD and run a DiskCheck.
I wanted to partition my HD so I could run a dual-boot XP and Vista. I was going to use PartitionMagic to create a partition on-the-fly, but it said I had some disk errors. So I figured DiskCheck would fix em. I guess not. I let the program do its thing while I played my PSP (I finally finished Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion!). I occasionally glanced at my laptop to check the progress. Since I was nearing the end of the game, I stopped checking the status. Eventually, I kept hearing the latop restart itself. Perplexed, I check out the computer. For some reason, some BSOD (Blue Screen of Death for those not-so-computer-saavy) kept coming up, but I couldn't read it because the system would restart itself too fast.
I tried to reboot in safe mode, last good configuration, etc. to no avail. So I decided to pop in the restore CDs and just reformat/reinstall. I didn't lose too much data (I think). I purchased a travel external drive about a month ago and moved all my music, pictures, and movies to it. Unfortunately, I didn't move a lot of the documents - school work, reciepts, and other important documents. But I can live without it. It wasn't much, anyway.
Ironically, this loss of data occurred while I was thinking about turning my desktop into a "file server." I figured that I could buy a few HDs, shove em in the unit, and just use it to host files for the network/make back-ups. I was even checking out prices for HDs while the DiskCheck was running! I suppose I'll have to look into this matter more seriously, now.
Anyway, I'm not really pissed off or anything. I'm more annoyed because now I have to reinstall everything (which is what I'm doing now). This is going to take a few hours that I really didn't want to devote to this. *Sigh* Oh well...I don't understand the Computer Gods and their strange logic...
