Back in the land of the working PC

Tonight I am updating on my main PC - it is fixed and improved and working spiffily. True, I have to buy a 9-pin to USB adapter as my art pad is of venerable antiquity and 9-pin sockets do not feature on modern motherboards, and true, I have to go to all the hassle of reworking the registration number as it currently thinks I am using a pirated copy of XP, but...

Just having access to all the little programs and applications I take for granted is nice, as is access again to my 200Gig hard drive with all the cool stuff on it. Don't get me wrong, the lappie is wonderful and all, but for homeworking and faffing, the main PC just feels right.

More to the point, I can now watch the remainder of season 2 of LOST. Which reminds me: time to set the torrents for BSG episode 6.

Back in the land of the working PC

Tonight I am updating on my main PC - it is fixed and improved and working spiffily. True, I have to buy a 9-pin to USB adapter as my art pad is of venerable antiquity and 9-pin sockets do not feature on modern motherboards, and true, I have to go to all the hassle of reworking the registration number as it currently thinks I am using a pirated copy of XP, but...

Just having access to all the little programs and applications I take for granted is nice, as is access again to my 200Gig hard drive with all the cool stuff on it. Don't get me wrong, the lappie is wonderful and all, but for homeworking and faffing, the main PC just feels right.

More to the point, I can now watch the remainder of season 2 of LOST. Which reminds me: time to set the torrents for BSG episode 6.

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I can see that my next project is going to take more time than I thought it would. My shiny, newly rebuilt PC has no 9-pin parallel ports, they being antiaunt and of grim antiquitee. Normally I wouldn’t care, but I have an art pad that uses a 9-pin port and having seen the cost of a new art tablet, I have decided that the only answer is to purchase an adapter as mentioned yesterday (and allowing for phil99’s warning). The difference is over £200 for a new pad, or about £12 for an adapter.

That will be a trip to Tottenham Court Road at some point, then, seeing as there is nowhere close to Victoria that sells anything useful like that.

In the meantime, in addition to telling me that I am using a pirated version of XP, which I had fixed, the damned thing has started asking for random internet connections when I am already on-line, on a random sampling of urls. I don’t know why, but it is annoying and distracting. Still, it is faster, quieter and actually working, which is a marked step up from where I was before!.

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I can see that my next project is going to take more time than I thought it would. My shiny, newly rebuilt PC has no 9-pin parallel ports, they being antiaunt and of grim antiquitee. Normally I wouldn’t care, but I have an art pad that uses a 9-pin port and having seen the cost of a new art tablet, I have decided that the only answer is to purchase an adapter as mentioned yesterday (and allowing for phil99’s warning). The difference is over £200 for a new pad, or about £12 for an adapter.

That will be a trip to Tottenham Court Road at some point, then, seeing as there is nowhere close to Victoria that sells anything useful like that.

In the meantime, in addition to telling me that I am using a pirated version of XP, which I had fixed, the damned thing has started asking for random internet connections when I am already on-line, on a random sampling of urls. I don’t know why, but it is annoying and distracting. Still, it is faster, quieter and actually working, which is a marked step up from where I was before!.

The cheeriest news of all...

...someone has found a new McGonagall!

It's true and therefore a day to rejoice. According to this article in the Times Online, scholars have unearthed a previously unpublished play by William Topaz McGonagall, officially the world's worst poet. The play, entitled Jack o’ the Cudgel (or The Hero of a Hundred Fights) is apparently based upon his poem of the same name.

Chris Hunt, editor of a new collection of McGonagall's works to be published next month, said that Jack o' the Cudgel was inspired by Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. He said that McGonagall himself, who was an enthusiastic, if dreadful actor, had probably intended to play the title role. He said: "It's funny, but not in the way McGonagall intended, and the best I can say is that it adds to the gaiety of nations."

That's going straight on my Amazon wish list!

The cheeriest news of all...

...someone has found a new McGonagall!

It's true and therefore a day to rejoice. According to this article in the Times Online, scholars have unearthed a previously unpublished play by William Topaz McGonagall, officially the world's worst poet. The play, entitled Jack o’ the Cudgel (or The Hero of a Hundred Fights) is apparently based upon his poem of the same name.

Chris Hunt, editor of a new collection of McGonagall's works to be published next month, said that Jack o' the Cudgel was inspired by Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. He said that McGonagall himself, who was an enthusiastic, if dreadful actor, had probably intended to play the title role. He said: "It's funny, but not in the way McGonagall intended, and the best I can say is that it adds to the gaiety of nations."

That's going straight on my Amazon wish list!