Birthdays, Schooldays & iPods

Posted by Hex on Sep 23rd, 2008
2008
Sep 23

First off thanks to everyone who sent me birthday wishes, presents, etc. :) I had a pretty good birthday this year. Dyed my hair stupidly bright orange and purple. Went to the Turtle, met up with some friends for drinks and then headed on over to ZeroDegrees for yummy pizzas. Checked out the new Rising landlords too. They’ve cleaned the place up a lot, but insist on having all the lights on full brightness all the time and they’ve taken the side shades off the strip light above the table football table. I spent most of the time blinded and my mates were all silhouettes.


Got most of my OU stuff through. I’ve managed to read all my set texts, in fact I only have the DVD of ‘Bhaji on the Beach‘ left to watch. Looked through my Assignment questions and got terrified! Looked at the student forums and saw almost everyone doing AA100 is equally terrified - felt much better! :) Got my Tutorial dates through as well, was a bit miffed at first as I’m meant to get to Oxford (for the record, bloody miles away) for 09:30 on a few Saturdays which is never gonna happen. Luckily an e-mail from my Tutor confirms these aren’t mandatory - phew! I’m hoping to OD on the on-line aids provided so I don’t miss out too much from not attending the day schools.


Went to listen to my iPod (5.5G 80Gb) on Saturday and it refused to play. It whirrs up but just sits at 00:00. Video seems to crash it completely. Reset it about 8 or 9 times with no joy. Did a full restore, still dead. Found quite a few others have had this happen since the latest firmware update (v1.3). Downgraded the firmware to v1.2.3, still no joy. Going to try putting RockBox on it and see if that works. It’s out of warranty and getting it fixed would cost as much as getting a new one. :( I don’t mind getting a new one so much, but I hate the thought of getting rid of this when everything except music/video works on it! Even if it’s just an expensive Mah Jongg player, it’s something!

Dying my hair (pink blue &…

Posted by Hex on Apr 8th, 2007
2007
Apr 8

Dying my hair (pink blue & purple today).

Just as well it is then…

Posted by Hex on Jan 29th, 2006
2006
Jan 29
Your Hair Should Be Blue

Wild, brilliant, and out of control.
You’re a risk taker with an eye to the future.

What’s Your Funky Inner Hair Colour?

Bl00 Meanie

Posted by Hex on Jul 25th, 2005
2005
Jul 25

I dyed my hair all blue :oD

It still has Atomic Pink at the bottom which is why that’s a bit purpley. It seems to be very intense blue under natural lighting and a bit more purpley under artificial lights.

W00t… ish…

Posted by Hex on Nov 17th, 2004
2004
Nov 17

I managed to do stuff so my day off didn’t feel entirely wasted :oD

I only did a little hoovering in the end. Just couldn’t be arsed for the most part. Didn’t dye my hair at all, so it looks like I’ll either have a mad rush to do it on Friday before I go out… or I’ll just spend another week with bad roots & no bloooo :o/

So, what I did manage to get done was:

  • Dusted off the old Shuttle SpaceWalker (SV25)
  • Removed the un-used WiFi card from my PC
  • Found the PCI riser for the Shuttle
  • Installed the WiFi card into the Shuttle
  • Found the old PC133 SDRAM from my old PC
  • Put old RAM into Shuttle
  • Booted up Shuttle - it worked! \o/
  • Installed various drivers & FileZilla onto Shuttle
  • Started getting the last bits of data off the old HDD
  • Ordered 120GB HDD
  • Ordered a new kettle-lead (had to nick one from an old printer)
  • Ordered a USB 2.0 HDD enclosure
  • Now, the plan is to:

  • Rip out the old 2GB drive from the Shuttle
  • Put new 120GB drive into Shuttle
  • Plug into my monitor’s 2nd input
  • Stick spare Windows 2000 Pro on there
  • Install all the drivers
  • Install FileZilla
  • Install Ultr@VNC (can you see where this is heading?)
  • Install Azureus/ABC (not decided yet, but some Bit-Torrent client)
  • Test Ultr@VNC from my PC & the PowerBook
  • Move Shuttle over to the living-room
  • Boot up
  • Remote On
  • Log in to UK Nova
  • Set off downloads
  • Relax…
  • Then:

  • Use HDD enclosure to get the data off the 200GB drive for the HTPC (AKA “Forever Work In Progress”)
  • Burn LOADS of data to DVD to clear down main PC’s HDD (cluttered is an understatement, should reformat… but can’t be arsed just yet)
  • Use HDD enclosure to format 2GB drive (NTFS I guess)
  • Use 2GB HDD in enclosure to farm around LARGE files as needed
  • Hoorah! At last I have made plans that are easily do-able AND I get to recycle old hardware! :oD

    Waving Not Drowning…

    Posted by Hex on Oct 18th, 2004
    2004
    Oct 18

    I had a HOT lavender bath to stop me being so stressed.

    Feeling much better now, but must go to bed. So very, very tired.

    I have to get everything ready for the Scissor Sisters gig tomorrow \o/

    Gonna be a mission, I have to get home from work, pick up all my stuff, have a bath, pack stuff up, get to Rivermead all by 19:30:os

    I managed to get dye stuck in my glove & dyed my finger purple. It looks like I’ve had a nasty accident :o(

    Never Satisfied…

    Posted by Hex on May 16th, 2004
    2004
    May 16

    Got bored with CupCake Pink. Now Atomic Pink!

    Piiink

    It’s still UV:

    Haery Faery

    Posted by Hex on May 10th, 2004
    2004
    May 10

    OK, the pictures are awful quality, I know that, I just can’t be arsed though and by the time I can, it will have changed.

    Well, I was blonde for a week:

    Me Blonde

    (I’m miserable, I know)

    Then I went pink!!

    Me Pinky

    but, I couldn’t ditch that gorgeous blue, it contrasts sooo well:

    ooooh

    This is about as good a UV picture as I can be bothered to get. I may get another one down the pub later, this dye is very UV:

    UV Goodness

    Well, that’s enough for me. I’m tired and off to bed. I have to be Big-Bad-Boss-Lady tomorrow *evil-grin*

    Weirdness

    Posted by Hex on May 8th, 2004
    2004
    May 8

    It’s been a strange old week.

    The Sasser Worm hit work very hard. I managed to work a fairly standard day on Tuesday, but Wednesday was 07:50-21:35 with no break and Thursday was 07:50-19:30 with a short break in the morning, but I only got that because I got a call from my Mum, who was in floods of tears. Our cat, Puss, had to be put to sleep. :o( She had kidney & liver problems that hadn’t shown up on her blood tests. She wasn’t well at all. She made it to the grand old age of 18 though. Seems so weird to think we got her when I was 9 years old. Purdey is gone… Puss is gone… I feel so cold, alone, catless for the first time in my life :o(

    I’m also blonde. Which is weird for me… it’s not lasting long though, planning on CupCake Pink tomorrow, maybe with some blue and purple thrown in somewhere. I love that blue too much not to keep on using it.

    Anyhoo, back to the Sasser Worm, looks like my long hours and hard work have got me noticed at last. The Technical Director of Scorpio Net gave me one of their work-shirts and told me I was now an honorary member of the Scorpio Team. Awwww…. bless :o) Shame I don’t get their pay too…

    Well, it looks like the Wedding Invitation never turned up. I imagine that Bex & Crofty are married now… Oh well. It’s James & Cheney’s turn tomorrow. I’ll be glad when it’s over and I get my boyfriend back to be honest. He’s been stuck to James like glue for the past couple of months!

    EEEK!

    Posted by Hex on May 2nd, 2004
    2004
    May 2

    NOTE:

    I am currently blonde, so anything stupid I say or do…. the bleach takes the blame for.

    kthnxbye

    ;op

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