Steven made me do it
Jan/090
So it’s obvious that blogging is not something I do regularly.
Steven asked me to write something; apparently it’s been a while since I last posted. Even longer since I was completely sober while posting.
2008 was good. Very good, in fact. Apart from the fact that I ended the year as single as when I started it, I achieved everything I wanted. This did result in a bit of over commitment, which I’ve been paying the price for recently. I was asked to do a background check in preparation for my next industry placement (ING Direct, I can’t believe that news didn’t inspire a blog) and I when confronted with the employment history section I realised that I have four employers at the moment. I’m trying desperately to cut that down by half as soon as possibly. (Realistically, March. Ugh.)
I hate printers. They have never worked on the home network as I would have liked – and this one is a fucking network printer/scanner/brick. It’s plugged directly into the router, but the software remains an issue, and it’s a general pain. How hard could it be?</vent>
I hate having put on weight, and have been trying to drink and eat less. Since the point of reference was the holiday season, this has been a remarkable success. Hopefully avoiding fast food and shit beer is all I need.
I hate that I procrastinate so much. (Yet blog so little… although I’m procrastinating as we speak, and having realised this I must stop and make a token attempt to refocus)
I like lots of other things though.
MSDN AA or my ISP sucks. Or both.
Jun/082
I haven’t actually done a lot today – mainly because I was trying to download stuff from the MSDN AA. And it was failing, a lot.
I’ve had Internet connectivity issues for a week or more now, and it basically means that every few hours I’ll have to reboot. No big deal, I’m pretty used to it by now. It’s been a very long time since I did any online multiplayer gaming, so it’s not as if a drop out in the connection is going to cause me to lose anything important. Or so I thought…
Despite the fact that it quite clearly claims to have facility to resume downloads, the MSDNAA installer programs have exhibited no such talent. In fact, they’ve been positively useless, and I’ve been trying to download the MSDN library for Visual Studio for most of the day. It’s some 2GB, and to be fair, it’s not even that important.
I can’t actually remember what I was going to write after that, as a rather alarming message has appeared on my laptop, which runs Vista. I just installed Visual Studio 2008 on it, and was just restarting it after the installation as it asked. After it displayed the Installing Updates nonsense it restarted, displayed some screen I’d never seen before and scrolled through a heap of files, and then went back to the standard sort of Installing Updates screen… except that now it’s saying that Updates were not configured properly, and that it was reverting changes.
Smeg.
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It’s restarted … and now it’s trying to configure the updates again. Let’s hope this isn’t the start of a vicious cycle.
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Now it seems to be claiming that Visual Studio is installed. Yay?
Fingers crossed, I guess.
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Edit: Shortly after I posted this, the MSDN AA installer for the Visual Studio library decided that yes, actually it would like to resume at 70% instead of starting the download anew.
It was pretty much inevitable that as soon as I complained about it, it would suddenly work. So there you go: tempt fate through the medium of a blog and you may be rewarded!