I have converted to the dark side!!!

I have got a replacement for the hunk-o-junk that was the Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1667G Athlon 4000+ Mobile laptop.

What's more is that the shop (Micro Anvika) gave me the full amount of what I originally paid for the laptop, even though it was purple (yes I spray painted it), broken and memory-less (they couldn't trade in the unbranded 2GBytes of memory I bought for the laptop)! I think they deserve a Gold Star Award! for this! A Gold Star Award! is a highly sought after award which I have just made up now and will keep track of all the people/companies/pizzas I award it to.

It is a brand new Apple MacBook Pro 2GHz!!! It comes in a really nice case too! Better than the massov case that FSC and every other PC manufacturer supply. So overall it cost an extra £600 when the £999 for the old laptop was taken off the list price. Yes it's VERY expensive but then you're paying for quality.

I am actually quite nervous about the whole business. Edd is telling me "I told you so" meaning that everyone who wants to use their computer will eventually get an Apple Mac.

Time will tell whether I miss using M$ Windows.

My laptop is dead. AGAIN.

My laptop has decided to die. Again. For the third time. With the same problem. I think I demanded too much from the poor thing.

What I did, seemed to me to be quite acceptable and I thought that the laptop could handle it without frying its graphics card.

Here is what I did:

• Attach a secondary monitor (nothing too stressful yet)
• Put MSN, Firefox etc. onto the secondary monitor (childs play up to now)
• Open up ShiftWindow (alarm bells will begin ringing for those who know what this does)
• Open up Counterstrike Source (uh oh)
• Configure ShiftWindow to run Counterstrike Source in a window, covering the whole of the laptop primary monitor (this program is amazing; because normally if CSS is run in a window and you click on anything on the secondary monitor, then it minimizes even there is no need to; this program stops this VERY annoying problem)
  
• Play Counterstrike Source, and when dead answer the weirdos who decide to talk to me on MSN and check mail
  

Now obviously all this was too much for the inadequate cooling available to the laptop, and as such it bluescreened a couple of times then refused to POST.

So now I am in the predicament of deciding whether to get it repaired again just for the same thing to happen, or get some sort of replacement.

Firefox 2 - IE7 0

Well, IE7 has made up it's previous failings by rendering my latest profile adjustment. The problem of IE7 (and IE6 it turns out) was that it didn't like the page being semi transparent (translucent, or almost opaque if you will). I did not know this but Vickie pointed out that she liked my profile better without the translucent effect. It also runs faster without it. So everybody (excepting my dad, who is suffering alot from a tooth repair gone horribly wrong) wins (also not England FC, but that's old news and I don't care that much).

I have added a custom mp3 player!!! Within it's own box!!! Sorry Cat Zap but my profile obviously has priority over yours, but I will get around to adding your own mp3 player in due course... Marvel at my lack of useful things to, copious amounts of free time but above all my creative, genius-like mastery of the HTML markup language.

Credits for this astounding technological achievement go to:

• www.bugmenot.com - for providing me with a usable filelodge account
• www.filelodge.com - for hosting the mp3s
• www.profiletweaks.com - for providing the mp3 player which thee see-eth

Humans which made these recent editions to my profile an actuality include:

• Me
• Cat Zappa
• Vickie

Firefox 1 - IE7 -1

Just found out recently my meticulously designed MySpace looks absolutely abysmal in IE7. To the point that IE7 seems to delete some of my content .

Firefox


IE7


Be warned! Be very warned!

USE FIREFOX!

DeviantArt

Hey Kiddies

Following severe coaxing from my bored creative half of my brain, I eventually gave in and created a Deviant Art profile.

For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a website to get free art from. I use it mainly for wallpapers, which is exactly what I have submitted there.

Here's the direct link to my submission, feel free to comment there (if you can, dont know if they allow guest comments) or on my profile.



Btw. You click the picture to make it bigger, I didn't submit a 300x188 picture as my masterpiece...

Enjoy!