May 2007
17:27 - 08/05/07 - Power to the Screwdriver
This is a tale of computer woes, it's fairly boring, you have been warned. So my computer hasn't been so healthy, it was making odd noises, which was presumably (and accurately) a cooling fan catching on something. Unfortunately it turned out to be the PSU fan, which being inside the PSU I couldn't either see what was catching or get in to move it, so I just smacked it a little, tilted it this way and that, but unfortunately it didn't stop. I just tolerated it for a while (about 2 days) but eventually the noise and the thought it was probably fucking up the psu fan motor made me snap. Out came the screwdrivers, ignoring the big sticker saying "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES OPEN THIS PSU" and voiding the warranty I opened up the PSU, to find... *drum roll* the resin that was holding the copper transformers together had melted into the fan! This was probably because the whole thing was chock-a-block with dust, I gave it a good blowing, snapped off the resin that had dripped down and reassembled it. Had a slight scare when my second HDD wasn't detected in start up and had to work out how SATA power cables worked, a short time later after plugging cables into the only holes they fitted into (I'm a genius) my computer was purring again. Here endeth the tale.
18:49 - 06/05/07 - Ladder Thoery
Today I had my first introduction to Ladder Theory (this is about sex and relationships, not maths or physics, so keep reading). I feel the need to tread carefully here, for reasons I shall elabourate, so I'm going state that I like it along with a little 'pre-defence'. This is because I'm aware that a lot people may have pre-formed opinions about Ladder Theory, and will disapprove because either they misunderstood what it was, or were misinformed by people who did i.e. were informed about it via a third party. I was lucky enough to stumble upon the original work, not the spawned ramblings and miscomprensions of legions of internet geek fans labelling themselves IWs (Intellectual Whores: see Ladder Theory) or misogynists (like the guy writing the foreword tbh). Being able to read it without preconceptions has allowed me to see it for what it is, a peice of satire, and as a peice of satire I stand by it completely and advise anyone (with a sense of humour obviously) to read it.
I was going to write a paragraph or too on the general nature of satire; how, in a nut-shell, you're not supposed to take it at face value. However I think to really appreciate satire, you just have to get it yourself. I love it, it's entertaining and thought provoking (often cynical too), but I get that some people don't enjoy it even when they understand it. This is possibly because if someone is stupid enough to take it at face value it can be seriously detrimental, but then again it wouldn't be satire if it wasn't! Well I'll leave it at that, although on a related thought I wish that generally when people had a problem with someone else's opinion they would go talk to said someone else and dicuss it with them more often, rather than being judgmental. Then again I wouldn't have been able to flesh out this blog with 'pre-defence' if that was the case, I'd have just posted a link.