Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

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I finally had 5GB free on my computer so I decided to take the plunge and install Windows XP on another partition in the hopes of starting fresh and cleaning up:

1. DVD drive doesn’t work at all unless the computer is started with the Windows CD in the drive.
2. ATI All in Wonder TV card doesn’t play TV and stops the computer from entering the Hibernation mode which saves a lot of power. Attempts to upgrade to current drivers reboot/crashes the computer in a loop.
3. A junk filled registry from years of software installations and uninstalls.
4. A Twinkle 2110 USB webcam that crashes the computer when used in conjunction with Yahoo Messenger.
5. Firefox crashing every few days, possibly from over-extension.
6. Banishing any undetected rootkit or trojan to the past [although I have no reason to suspect one is installed since I practice safe hex].
7. And giving myself the ability to back up my Windows partition to a Ghost image for easy restoration later. My 20GB C: didn’t give me that possibility, and lack of an easy backup is worrisome to me.

Now that I have a “clean” Windows, I have to do all my little customizations, and utility installations again, but I’m going to do it carefully so I can identifiy what, if anything, was breaking stuff in the past. And when I’m satisfied that I have an improved computer, and I’ve imported all of my data from my C: drive, then I can toast the old system installation and have oddles more room. Then I can go about moving to Ubuntu Linux so I can ditch Windows XP whenever I don’t wan to use it as my TV recorder.
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In other events, Canada won a silver in women’s team skiing. This is Beckie Scott’s second silver medal, oh wait it’s her first because her silver was upgraded to gold, after finishing originally in third place behind two cheating skiiers in the Salt Lake Olympics.
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Gormley’s “Reality Check” was probing the question: Should Ezra Levant of the Western Standard have published the cartoons that are accused with instigating riots in the Middle East? More people said that he should have published them, since it’s more of a question of freedom of the press, than tip-toeing around a particular religious viewpoint. I agree with that, since how can anyone know if all of the cartoons were as tasteless as we’d been led to believe if they haven’t even been viewed? The bottom line is that someone, somewhere is always going to take offense to something, so as long as the speaker’s intent isn’t to rally people to cause harm to others, then freedom of speech should stand paramount. Samantha Burns has made a few of her own cartoons to mock the situation, because humour is often the best window to an absurdity.

John Gormley of CKOM.com has fawned over Harper’s cabinet picks before.
Gormley’s “60 Seconds” bit today was laughable. While he’s pushing that the big bad liberal media fawns over “Canada’s natural governing party - the Liberals,” he’s ignoring that his natural governing party is the Conservative Party and he puts his own fawning support behind it with the same kind of blind and emotional loyalty. “Harper hasn’t yet begun to rule, and the media is already saying he’s lost our trust. What if he brings in the Federal Accountability Act?” Yeah, what if he does that? So what? He’s already broken two or three cornerstones of his campaign platform with his bungling of cabinet/Senate appointments. If he can’t be expected to work under his own “government accountability” conditions, then why should he inflict that untenable law on the next party to govern? He can’t even live for 2 weeks with his own promises, and own laws, so what does that say about his governing skill, and his truthfulness?

An update this morning in Gretzky news. Chris from the blogosphere pointed out that a wiretap revealing Gretzky knew about the gambling ring run by Tocchet, was conducted after the news started to break around him, and not a month ago which could have indicated prior knowledge of the illegal ring.

Feb. 12, 2006 Sunday

Friday afternoon I had off work, and I went to the Yorkton art gallery on Smith St. with my friend Ashley and we got an impromptu tour by the curator of an art exhibit that was opening that night. We weren’t able to make it to the 7pm wine and cheese opening with the presentation of the artist who’s from Alberta. The topic of the display was the female body, and in the middle of the room were bronze and other castings of pregnant torsos. The walls were covered with torsos made of real lichen from Ontario, and plaster and paper mache which was quite disturbing with fake stitches mimicking an old mummified body. There was also an ancient wax painting technique with magnified skin from knuckles and scars.

On Friday night I watched “Interview with a Vampire” [8/10] which was very good and worth a 9 for some parts, and just a 7 for others. On Saturday I watched “Cheaper by the Dozen” [6/10] with Steve Martin and no Oprah when they said she was appearing later in the movie, but apparently were just using her name as a plot ploy. Then I saw “Starship Troopers” [7/10] which I’d seen before many years ago, but this time caught all but the first few seconds of the show. It has some very good special effects, and political propaganda humour.

I ate supper in Melville at Dairy Queen and had a Choco Cherry Love Blizzard which was very good. The roads were a little icy from the blizzard we’ve had the last 2 days, although today was nearly perfect for driving.

I watched some of the Olympics today, inclusind short track speed skating. Canada has a gold medal in moguls, and a bronze in short track.

On the bus home from Regina, I was talking a bit about movies with the guy sitting next to me (the bus was so full some seats were two people side by side) and we both thought there’s been no really good movies lately. I didn’t even want to see anything at Rainbow today, so instead Rob, Brien, Peter and I went to Walmart and bought playing cards and poker chips, cleaned off the kitchen table, and played cards for an hour. I learned Texas Hold’em Poker, and Rob learned Poker, period. When we came out of Walmart, a Snowbird buzzed the parking lot, which was super cool, and I had to kick myself a little for not having my camera out and ready to take a picture of the lot like my spider senses had been telling me once I got outside.

Beckie Scott, Canada’s golden skiier from 2002, only won gold after the first and second place finishers were booted from the race for obvious cheating using drugs. Hopefully she’ll bring home another medal, and won’t have to fight for what’s rightfully her’s. Why do so many cheat in pro sports when they know they’ll be tested?

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From Daring to be Remarkable’s website I found the link for terrorism signs. Don’t get confused, be ready when that radiation hits your groin region for 5 minutes and 12 seconds.
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I spoke to a helpful person at ViewSonic [it's about time!] in their call center at Raleigh, North Carolina. He was able to get a replacement monitor for one that broke and was sent do be repaired back in NOVEMBER, slated for shipment to me by next week. The previous call center person needed the tracking number of my shipment, even though they had the RMA number and everything else they’d need to have confirmed that they did have the monitor still. ViewSonic is such an awful pain, please don’t buy from them.
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Don’t forget to be an organ donor - Tell someone you know that you want to donate your organs, and sign a note in your wallet. And hey, if you don’t want to save kids from organ failure, at least donate them as food? Your organs, not the kids. Mmm, liver. Yes I’m kidding - liver tastes awful.

Scam Busted is a new blog with the developing story of a Saskatchewan person toying with a Nigerian scammer. I’m going to keep my eye on it and post the most interesting updates.
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Sweet! Money in the mail from SGI coming soon. Now if only people would be good drivers more often, and we could always have this 8% rebate, and fewer medical bills to pay for too. SLOW DOWN! I’m talking to you. Yeah you in the fast car skidding up to the red light which has been red for the last 5 seconds.
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[Update: An update this morning in Gretzky news. Chris from the blogosphere pointed out thae update that the wiretap revealing Gretzky knew about the gambling ring, was done after the news started to break around him, and not a month ago.] Well, the “Great One” [was] starting to look like he might be in hot water. Could he become the next Pete Rose by “not” betting on baseball? I’m hoping the facts don’t show that he was involved in Rick Tocchet’s gambling ring, because we still need sports heroes that haven’t tarnished their name. See: McGuire, Sosa, Palmerio, Rose, hmm Baseball players are a theme. Could they be why the IOC has pulled baseball [and poor ol' softball] from the 2012 Olympics in London? Oh wait, there’s McSorely, Brasheer, Federov, Tocchet [conviction pending] of the hockey world with a touch of scandal around them too after attaining fame in their game. Speak of a scandal and what shall appear? Theodore tests positive.

A Google Ad that makes you think:

Who knew that there was more than one God, and they pay you for doing surveys for them? Why don’t they know the answers, is the bigger question.

Also, why would you bother doing the survey, if you didn’t believe that the test giver actually exists, and wouldn’t that skew the results?