Have you seemingly bricked your nook? Is it (mostly) unresponsive and seemingly useless and dead? Don’t throw out your beloved e-reader just yet. No, *I* haven’t had any nook-bricking experience (yet), but my dear boyfriend Jake has, and he kindly asked me to share his experience (as well as the solution) with you good people. [...]

The time has come once again, that is, the time for me to get a new PC. This long, sad tale of PC replacement involves my previous computer slowly committing suicide. In short, I buy a fancy new monitor, and the video card blows up. Lucky me. My dear father had been offering to buy [...]

Today can’t get any weirder. First of all, I hear of a friend’s weird situation which I can’t speak of. Okay. That’s really weird, I think. (Useless for you to read, but this is my blog goddammit.) Second of all, in my quest for trying to unlock my Vodafone UK handset, I discover that it [...]

Yesterday, my friend Jake came over. He was having some computer problems, and wanted to try out Linux. We set up his (massive) laptop – an old Alienware Area 51 – and backed up his stuff on my external HD. We got everything backed up, and used the ghost-image CD that came with the laptop, [...]

My laptop finally arrived, woohoo!Overall I’m pretty happy with it. The resolution is nice (1680×1050 I believe), it’s very quiet, runs very cool, and best of all it’s fast! Of course, nothing’s perfect. The keyboard is a little bit weird compared to the one I’m used to, but I’m fairly used to it after a [...]

Happy March! Oh, my laptop finally shipped. Woohoo! I have a story about caffeine to post, but I’d rather be lazy. Maybe later.

Today, I went to the Arizona Renaissance Festival, and did some ye olde renaissance things. Long story short: I spent money.If you didn’t know already, I have a little obsession with dragons. Big dragons, small dragons, western, eastern, anything! I think dragons (especially the western dragons) are awesome and amazing, so these festivals mean bad [...]

Seeing as my current laptop runs at an average of 120° Fahrenheit, is rather loud, and running out of HD space, I decided it was time for a new one. Now that Uncle Sam is paying me every month, I can now easily afford one.Long story short, I just got through ordering me one of [...]

For those too lazy to read: I got my graphics card installed. Woo!For those with the strength, courage, endurance to read: Well, my fancy-shmancy new graphics card does indeed work! But no story is interesting without complications, and of course Windows annoyances.First of all, the card came with no installation instructions. No n00bs here!Anyway, when [...]

Today, I spent a lot of money. We went down to Phoenix to go visit my aunt and uncle, who turned out to be away from home, so instead we just spent my money! First stop, of course, was Fry’s Electronics. I bought myself a fancy new Nvidia Geforce 7300 (AGP) graphics card, which I’ll [...]