Flying Gogoplata

I am currently sitting in front of my computer working on a post that I hope to publish tonight. As a soundtrack to this writing, I have decided to acquaint myself with the solo musical stylings of Mr. Bootsy Collins. My monitor is normally a glory to behold, vast and wide, responsive, bright. And this from a man who loved CRT monitors long after their market demise.

One thing I could never stand about CRTs was their sensitivity to Electro-Magnetic Interference. Every cell-phone transmission, speaker signal, power sag or spike would cause the screen to quiver and shake EVER so slightly, perceptible only enough to hurt my eyes and annoy the living shit out of me. My display upgrade has left me nothing but satisfied in especially this respect. Until today when I noticed some slight quivering in the Microsoft blue sky background image of my desktop. Ready to run my fist into my beloved monitor for stabbing me in the back, I went in for closer inspection, only to find that that the very slight quiver was in perfect synchrony with the rubber-band bass of Mr. Bootsy Collins himself. Not even liquid crystal can escape the urge to groove.

God Damn I love the Funk.

I think I’m going to avoid the urge to bias you on my piece. The open letter below is my submission for critique. Please do with it what you will.

My blog, if you couldn’t tell, is up and running again. Hopefully it will stay that way. It may, however, move in the near future if I can find some free webspace.

As a result of my laziness, my 2.1.1 upgrade has been delayed, though I must say I am lucky for the delay. 2.1.1 was declared dangerous because some hacker got access to the download and injected his own nasty code. Since they weren’t able to determine which downloads were affected, the entire milestone has been deemed corrupted. Ouch. Let’s not let this happen again, WordPress.

As a result of the OCF downtime, I haven’t upgraded to 2.1.2 nor experimented with Akismet. Hopefully I’ll be able to play with them this weekend and report back on the results.

I think that’s it. Hopefully if I keep up with this three posts a day thing, I can catch up for my blogging slackerhood.

In my quest to feed my growingly discriminant ear, I purchased a wildly overpriced USB sound card (as the PC Card variants are not backward compatible with my ExpressCard slot). But I could not bear to install it on my slowing-with-gunk year-old Dell XPS M140 laptop.

So this Sunday I backed up all my necessary files onto my external hard drive and reformatted the little bastard so I could start from an oh-so-fresh-and-so-clean state. I generally don’t like to back up my settings because even those tend to suffer from rot after a while and though it takes a little longer, I end up with a much fitter, happier, more productive computing experience.

The end result of this is the fact that it is now Tuesday and I still haven’t gotten everything the way I like it. This has had an adverse effect on the various things I like to do from my computer. Things like homework, email, presidential documentation, job hunting, and of course, reading and writing blogs. But, while I am not producing any of those silly trifles, I am producing beautifully precise 5.1 Channel surround sound for my Danzig, War, and Chili Peppers listening needs.

So hopefully, by the end of the night, I will have learned to solve Rubik’s Cube, finished tweaking my computer, and posted a blog that is ready for review. If not…it will be up by Friday.