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Yes, just a few weeks after reformatting my PC, cleaning it out and spending hours filling it up with all of the stuff I need and love, it decided to stop working. All of that work for nothing! Let me tell you what happened…

I turned it on because there was some stuff that I wanted to transfer over. Everything was normal, it started up like it always does. Except, there was this funny burning smell. A definite electronic smell, but nothing too strong that I was concerned. It really wasn’t so much that something was burning but that it was really hot. I have smelled it before and nothing life shattering has happened, so I figured that this was pretty much the same.

So, I went downstairs to talk to my mom. When I came back up and looked at my computer, the screen of my monitor was black but the light was on like the computer was off. Well, since I certainly didn’t turn the computer off, I was confused. Looking down at the computer tower, I noticed that the light that usually blinks bright green was a very soft green and it was blinking rapidly, too rapidly, in fact. It was on, but stuck in some low powered broken cycle. I couldn’t even restart it manually. I finally had to pull the plug.

For the sake of experimentation, I plugged it into a different socket and tried it again. Unfortunately, no matter where I tried or how I tried, the thing kept doing that weird blinking and not booting all of the way.

That means I have no PC. Boooo.

At least I have my laptop. And all of my important stuff is on an external hard drive that was in no way affected. I don’t want to use my precious laptop so much, though, but now I have to because I don’t have my PC to work from. How lame is that? I think the PC is gone for good.

On one hand, I suppose it’s good. It is one less thing I am going to have to take with me when I move. One less thing to find a place for. And, I can get a new one when the time is right. This is what I tell myself. It’s how I keep from throwing a tantrum like a child!

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Picture this:

It’s 8:30am, you have a cup of coffee in hand and you are anxiously waiting for 9am to come. At 9am, you have to give a presentation that you’ve been working for months on. This is your last semester of your last year of getting your Bachelor’s Degree, so a lot of riding on how well you perform your presentation, how well you are able to communicate your information. Sure, you know it like the back of your hand, but the stress is killing you. It’s going to be the stress that messes you up, that fogs your brain and causes you to trip up so that you seem as if you haven’t been preparing for months.

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Let me tell you… when I took over the Play It Loud music rotation webring, ringsurf.com was still the best thing out there. A FAR cry better than webring.org, which had gone down the drain with ugly, impossible to customize ring codes and crappy forced ads. Ringsurf.com was like a haven to all of those who loved their webrings and the beautiful simplicity of running one through the service.

But, Yahoo bought ringsurf.com and turned it into a crap hole. Gone is the ability to have a pretty customizable text code with various features of what to surf. Heck, you can’t even link to a ring home page with your code or through your webring page. The new ringsurf.com pretty much forces you to use a cruddy, boring, non-customizable scheme. A lot of the options of making a webring were taken away.

So, I decided with Play It Loud that I would run a script from the website. A quick search at Hot Scripts and a visit to some reliable message boards led me to VS.Hive. So far, I LOVE the script. It only took me about 5 minutes to install and customizing it is simple as I don’t know what. Moving to a hosted script is totally the best move for Play It Loud. Come on members! Come back to meeeee.

I emailed at 300+ members of the webring. Hopefully they will rejoin soon so that we can rebuild our community.

Speaking of which, the Yuki Eiri Gallery is about to reach 11,675 members. I sure didn’t expect that to explode like it did… well, I suppose I should have. Gravitation is HUGE and I happened to be building my gallery when all of the new Genzo tracks were being released.

I took my old music rotation, Genetic Bomb, and redid it. In fact, I moved it, renamed it and redesigned it completely. I am starting from scratch here, too! To be honest, though, Genetic Bomb was gone so long that it didn’t seem worth resurrecting. It seemed the best move of all to remake something entirely new. So, I did… Blood Music!

I did some work around here. I cam addicted to plugins. That is probably pretty obvious… but I had to replace some when I upgraded to Wordpress 2.6. And, I wanted new stuff. New stuff for me like post ratings and post views and a site map. It’s all so cool on the backend. You should see my Wordpress Admin panel. It’s insanely cramped full of stuff.

Next up!? I am making a totally new layout for Marius de Romanus.net. It was about time that it got an overhaul. I want something a little… darker than what I have now. Elegant, for sure, since it IS Marius that we’re talking about and he’s just not your typical vampire. It is coming along great right now. I am about half way done with the layout itself. Afterwards, I will have to work on the coding. But, I’ll worry about that when I’ve created a layout that I can happy with. And then, it’s on to revamping Yuki Eiri.com.

First my domains and then some of the subsites. Once the main domains are finished and redone, I’ll work on my subdomains because A LOT of them need to be redone and updated as far as content information goes.

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