{"id":505,"date":"2005-12-19T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2005-12-19T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T11:18:13","slug":"tooting-two-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Tooting Two Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to blog, in girly form, what I got over Sunday and on my birthday (which was not Sunday).<\/p>\n<p><b>Coolermaster 430W power supply<\/b>: To replace my old one, where my GeForce 6600GT was complaining of lack of juice.<br \/>\n<b>Pleomax 1600dpi laser mouse<\/b>: To replace my trusty A4Tech wireless optical mouse. Higher dots per inch means higher sensitivity. <b>Five<\/b> mouse buttons baby! Interestingly, the 4th and 5th were automatically Forward and Back in Internet Explorer. Configured correctly, I could play racing games with just the mouse! Sadly, it has the same problem as cheap optical mice &#8211; lifting it up until 2cm from the table\/mousepad will cause the cursor to run wildly. This means you can&#8217;t lift your mouse to turn rapidly!<br \/>\n<b>Maxtor 300GB PATA hard disk with 16MB cache<\/b>: One of those rarities. No more struggling with compressing pictures and videos, and uninstalling games!<br \/>\n<b>LG 16xDVD, 52x32x52 combo drive<\/b>: Now my siblings can watch DVDs on the other computer (which we affectionately name &#8220;<i>the left-side computer<\/i>&#8220;.)<\/p>\n<p>All plugged in, the formerly unstable computer, affectionately named &#8220;<i>the right-side computer<\/i>&#8221; gave noisy interference, and ran a memory test up till about 128MB (the number varied every time) and hung. Switching memory banks quickly rectified this.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t blogged about computers and guitars so long, people seem to have forgot that yes, <b>I can play the guitar<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/Elaine_CYL\/409523975\/item.html\" target=\"_BLANK\">Laynie<\/a>&#8216;s hilarious account of what happened when we met for lunch, with her not knowing I was older that day.<\/p>\n<p>Presents, in no order, and anonymously done to protect the identities of those who gave weird presents, and to prevent all of you from mooching up to those who gave good presents:<br \/>\nA Tower Records CD case, Lords Of Dogtown movie soundtrack CD, Christmas tree star (huh?), 1\/144 HG Grade Gundam, 25th Anniversary Rubik&#8217;s Cube, a blinking phone accessory, nice-smelling candles (when blackouts occur at least our home will smell the nicest!), a Casio digital watch with auto-reset countdown timer, five alarms, moon position, tides, compass, etcetera (much more sophisticated than my previous one, yay), company to Rock The World 6 and a ride home.<\/p>\n<p>Did I forget something?<\/p>\n<p>Did you forget something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to blog, in girly form, what I got over Sunday and on my birthday (which was not Sunday). Coolermaster 430W power supply: To replace my old one, where my GeForce 6600GT was complaining of lack of juice. Pleomax 1600dpi laser mouse: To replace my trusty A4Tech wireless optical mouse. Higher dots per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}