Well, well. That’s quite strange.

Some things are still quite out of my league. I can find my way in Javascript (e.g. jQuery equivalent) but it’s not the same as being a fullblown javascript programmer for years. I need like a legion of examples to do it. Then I need to fuck around with it for hours on end to make sense of it, then I’m lucky to have a “Eureka Moment”. That’s of course not the way to learn what I call ‘a semi-decent programming language’. You actually have to want it, but… I’ve never wanted to program! I want result! Mash up a bunch here and there to get where I want, fine. Learning an entire language to be able to do one little cool thing is overexaggeratin’. I’ll put it on the list to do if I really run out of more sensible stuff to do down the road.

I got it to work eventually, but then I thought: fuck no, it’s not going to work! It would come close, but not precise! If you want to know how much of ‘anal’ Im talking about: I’m getting ready to trash an entire project: the effect onmouseover is perfect, but the image behind it will still show part of the original which isn’t what I wanted! Unless….I CHEAT. Depends if I can overlay the original div with background color white onmouseover… *raises eyebrows* It’s most certainly not the way it’s done, and any practised programmer will go: “I lol’d”…

Nobody will notice the difference and performance wise it isn’t a biggie. Y NOT! I go try my crooked fix for problem. I’ve declared war on this script as it is. If my fix works I’ll come back later pulling my hair out because there will be something else wrong… I just know it!

Edit: I besieged the castle again with my cheating methods: I WUN. Not only did I get that bgcolor white to work, but I also got the zoom in I wanted so much. Yeah. I’m still the meanest ‘generalista’ alive. lol.*raises eyebrows* Impressive huh, and I’ll be the damned idiot going: “Just don’t check out the actual code *grin* “. Even though I got the concept right and know I can move it “somehow”, the problem is going to be positioning. NOT TODAY. *facedesk*

In my search on the web, I came across this total ‘nerd-bitch-fight’. No,”this is how you program this, you idiot!” – one more elitist than the other. Gawd I can’t stand these types of discussions. Even if I’m capable of understanding it: stfu and show me loadtimes pal. Just like Chrome still fucks up grads on svg royally next to Firefox. (I could go on… and on….) Thumbs up on webkit and effects though, burries Mozilla.

I should complain some more, helps clear my mind. Jquery, bitch, I ain’t done with you yet. Momma’s comin’.

I turn on something to download, I blinked my eyes and it was in. 2400kb/s. Burning red hot rubber I am. And that for the middle of nowhere. Life is good. Only occasionally, but life is good.

Man who came over to install it was around my age, a little younger I think. He noticed my wallpaper and said: “Who’s that guy?”. I said: “Japanese singer/actor”. So he says: “Oh so you know some Japanese?”. So I said: “Yep, bout two thousand words and it will probably never be more”.

I consist of two thoughts:

• Should I change the thing again?
• People, I don’t get you.

Sometimes I crack up from some of the questions posted by students though.

Firewall: the answer to stupidity?
One person needed something done and the firewall was blocking it, so someone else said: “Turn it off for a while then”. And then this person said: “No can’t possibly do that, can I?”. So… I told her the chances were pretty low unless Anonymous is planning something (rofl). So then she was like: “I can’t do that, because I’m on a public wifi”. I didn’t reply after that, but the first thing that crossed my mind was: “I wonder if then she actually was smart enough to indicate she’s logging on to a public network at the very least; or run her updates”.

Chick’s philosophy
This woman asks two million questions in the forum. I read one of them: why is Feyerabend called humanistic? I always thought that humanistic is like helping people, volunteer work and such? As an astrologer I went like:

You go read the teachings of Uranus, dear. There’s nothing as humanitarian as non-conformism.

The ‘elite’ student
There’s always this guy (usually a guy) that has to be *first* with everything. He’s first even though he’s not first yelling something, and is making that much of a spectacle of himself he looks like an idiot using that many expensive words to make a point that is lost halfway because people will be laughing. Talk like an academic? Then it apparently does not matter anymore to be practical and to the point. Compelling argument is about the clarity of the words you’re using to describe difficult concepts: though, bloated and useless as the language is, according to many he’d make a “fine” manager.

I’m looking forward to writing my essay for Philosophy, it’ll be one in a million I’m sure. The prof might still fail me (because I have the tendency to break rules), but it’ll certainly be something that’ll raise his eyebrows. xD

THIS. It’s my life. I just learned responsive webdesign in half an hour. Well, if anything I’ll have to say: selling my soul to the devil makes me intellectually poorer so I have to catch up on all the things I educate myself with for free which they never pay me for (coughs, a very IT statement). Will of course have the joy of implementing it. Perhaps someday I’ll actually come as far as implementing it here.

Cool, at least I got the concept right. Just hold on to your sack a couple of months and try again. Heh, abandon ship is not far off. Warning: Does not make Capricorn horns less rambunctious or sharp to the tushy (butt).

So which one did I get? Nya~ Asus N75S.

Top entertainment notebook. Plusses: screen is wonderful. Design is awesome. Sound is awesome. Yet to test the processing speed. Minus: Since I don’t use onboard sound, I use the sound-out plug to my stereo. The location of that plug is crappy. I’m right-handed, so if you use a corded mouse – the USB ports are right next to it. FAIL. lol. Now hopefully I can get this thing configured without crashing it once. *fingers crossed*.

I fixed the fail.

EDIT: NOT. Installing twenty things at the same time takes it toll.
EDIT: Yosha~

Think I can’t continue any longer without trying to clean my pc out. Not that it will help though, once that PSU starts going it’s going to go. A matter of time.

Edit: It is I from my teensy netbook! Cleared out the dust, would not help any more. I’m fed up with the PSU problems on this thing, so I’ll be looking at sparkly new notebooks. I can get it fixed with a new PSU again, but honestly, as soon as the power goes off in this house unexpected (which it did recently) – I can just replace it again. Grumble.

GREAT. EFFIN GREAT.

Decided to boot into Vista, and it worked. That is at least some hope. Am I glad I did a full backup near the end of the year. Because I sorta knew the machine is running “the last mile”. What I don’t understand… why does it seem like a hardware problem if I can still get into my other operating system just fine? Why?

Just finished putting some files into backup I made after January 1st; but now comes the fun part: trying to boot into XP again and pray it really was ‘only software’. Somehow… with that kind of noise coming out of the machine it’s not it. *_*.

THEORY:

I’m now back in XP and I think I know what caused it. I have a wireless mouse that gives me a hard time sometimes, so I toss the thing aside and use a cord mouse. I noticed it would give a high pitch tone through the stereo when plugged in (which external hd’s don’t do). It never was a problem until now, but it may explain why I could still get into Vista and that I could access XP as soon as I picked up the cordless mouse again. Weird, but so be it. “As long as it runs, it runs”.