A re-reintroduction to bitterness
this entry brought to you by radiohead, "pyramid song"
Rule #1 to screwing up a reintroduction of a much-beloved, long running website: Promise to update daily, and then, three days later, cease updating at all. This will ensure that anything resembling a returning reader will quickly forget about you and stop caring about whether you can or cannot get back in your supposed daily "groove".
Reintroducing my webpage, however, wouldn't be much of a problem were the PC that I use to write words and ramblings not so riddled with disease and infection.
Symptoms:
* Constant, ass-raping advertisements that pop up that sometimes show up even when the computer is not on-line.
* Some malicious, unknown program disabling my pop-up blocker shortly after it is reinstalled.
* Constant changing of my homepage to something called Coolfreesearch.biz-- when I initially log on, I right click on Internet Explorer and go to properties to change my homepage back to yahoo.com. Three minutes later when I decide to open up a second window to do a little multitasking, it will have already changed to coolfreesearch.biz.
* Random sites that I try to go to are interrupted in midload by something called zestyfind.com, which tells me the site can't be found, despite being in the middle of loading up when I'm informed of this.
* Sites that will have completed loaded up and I have been reading for five minutes will suddenly redirect to a 404 page, and when I try to click back, IE starts a series of crashes that end in a reboot.
* At any point in time, I might be bumped off-line, at which time a mini-dialer starts to dial some long-distance (sometimes even international) number, and trying to disrupt this causes errors.
* Perhaps worst of all, whatever malicious program is doing this will try logging on even when the PC is off-line. That's right. We'll be off-line, in front of the TV, eating dinner, when the PC behind us will start dialing some random number somewhere.
* Even worse than that, not Add/Remove Programs, nor Ad-Aware, nor ZoneAlarm, nor Norton Anti-Virus, nor WinClean, nor anything else that we've tried that I can think of can get rid of it all, and if it does get rid of it, somehow it'll come right back one or two boot-ups later. I have had a program detect and delete something called dvldvr.exe almost every boot-up for approximately two months.
In case you hadn't noticed, having your PC randomly boot you from whatever it is you're trying to do and then dial-up a porn number in Sweden, if not outright crash, is not exactly conductive of being able to post updates to an weblog daily.
But!
I might still be able to manage a semi-consistent schedule, because lately the computer has seemed somewhat stable, with only a few crashes or weird behavior over the past couple of days.
If I disappear for a long period of time again, pray for me and my computer's soul.
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with love from CRS @ 6:37 PM
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Rule #1 to screwing up a reintroduction of a much-beloved, long running website: Promise to update daily, and then, three days later, cease updating at all. This will ensure that anything resembling a returning reader will quickly forget about you and stop caring about whether you can or cannot get back in your supposed daily "groove".
Reintroducing my webpage, however, wouldn't be much of a problem were the PC that I use to write words and ramblings not so riddled with disease and infection.
Symptoms:
* Constant, ass-raping advertisements that pop up that sometimes show up even when the computer is not on-line.
* Some malicious, unknown program disabling my pop-up blocker shortly after it is reinstalled.
* Constant changing of my homepage to something called Coolfreesearch.biz-- when I initially log on, I right click on Internet Explorer and go to properties to change my homepage back to yahoo.com. Three minutes later when I decide to open up a second window to do a little multitasking, it will have already changed to coolfreesearch.biz.
* Random sites that I try to go to are interrupted in midload by something called zestyfind.com, which tells me the site can't be found, despite being in the middle of loading up when I'm informed of this.
* Sites that will have completed loaded up and I have been reading for five minutes will suddenly redirect to a 404 page, and when I try to click back, IE starts a series of crashes that end in a reboot.
* At any point in time, I might be bumped off-line, at which time a mini-dialer starts to dial some long-distance (sometimes even international) number, and trying to disrupt this causes errors.
* Perhaps worst of all, whatever malicious program is doing this will try logging on even when the PC is off-line. That's right. We'll be off-line, in front of the TV, eating dinner, when the PC behind us will start dialing some random number somewhere.
* Even worse than that, not Add/Remove Programs, nor Ad-Aware, nor ZoneAlarm, nor Norton Anti-Virus, nor WinClean, nor anything else that we've tried that I can think of can get rid of it all, and if it does get rid of it, somehow it'll come right back one or two boot-ups later. I have had a program detect and delete something called dvldvr.exe almost every boot-up for approximately two months.
In case you hadn't noticed, having your PC randomly boot you from whatever it is you're trying to do and then dial-up a porn number in Sweden, if not outright crash, is not exactly conductive of being able to post updates to an weblog daily.
But!
I might still be able to manage a semi-consistent schedule, because lately the computer has seemed somewhat stable, with only a few crashes or weird behavior over the past couple of days.
If I disappear for a long period of time again, pray for me and my computer's soul.
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