{"id":310,"date":"2004-11-04T03:12:58","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T03:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2004-11-04T03:12:58","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T03:12:58","slug":"southern-anna-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Southern Anna Log"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have so many blog links in my About Me!<\/a> page that I only check them twice a month, and I got lazy on the October ones. Dustyhawk!<\/a> How do you do it?<\/p>\n

I have to many blog links that it seems more than three people have the same Blog-city, Blogdrive<\/a> and Blogspot<\/a> layouts! Then, those who do change their layout change to something I’ve seen elsewhere. Heck, I beam with pride knowing that despite the Xfresh blogs<\/a> having only 9 skins to choose from, we have more tasteful (and not so tasteful) user-made skins. I think Diaryland<\/a> bloggers have the best layouts… too bad they got that irritating IFRAME and 1-entry-per-page thing.<\/p>\n

Oh, and for those who worried about my Western Digital hard disk… it’s alright. Last month the following happened:<\/p>\n

Windows said “Updates are ready for your computer. Click here to install the updates.<\/i>” So I did. My computer then went into SHLWAPI.DLL Entry Point Not Found<\/b> errors. I had to reinstall Windows (not a full reinstall, but it’s not the Repair option either…) I then let the Windows Update install the patches one at a time, rebooting in between. I then installed Windows XP Service Pack 2 and tadaa! Everything was fine…<\/p>\n

Of course, when transporting the CD writer to my main computer, I might’ve knocked a cable loose.<\/p>\n

It was a clear Friday night. I was online, then on the phone. When I came back, my brother pointed at the screen, saying it restarted by itself. “Book disk failure” or something. The BIOS didn’t detect the hard disk!<\/p>\n

It was too late and too dark to perform surgery.<\/p>\n

Damn, there was a lot to backup, considering I had less than 1GB in each of the 3 partitions of the hard disk!<\/p>\n

On Saturday I called Fazri<\/a> amongst others to ask what to do. He gave the most insightful advice – listen for the hard disk motor. I turned on my computer. Again, same error. I turned off my secondary computer (the one I took the CD writer from) just so I could listen for the hard disk.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t tell if it was my power supply fan making the noise, so I rolled out the computer table. Click! Whirrr. YAY! Somehow, by rolling out the table, the hard disk was connected again. It booted up fine, and I backed up what I could to the secondary computer via the network.<\/p>\n

Still, I got scares from back when I first bought the WD800JB (80 GB PATA 7200 RPM 8MB cache for those who care) – sometimes, accessing folders froze the computer for a minute. After partitioning into 5, 35 and 40 GB parts, I formatted all of them, but the 40 GB one said there was an error in formatting after it was done! Scared, I formatted it again, and it worked since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have so many blog links in my About Me! page that I only check them twice a month, and I got lazy on the October ones. Dustyhawk! How do you do it? I have to many blog links that it seems more than three people have the same Blog-city, Blogdrive and Blogspot layouts! Then, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}