gotta love talent – while I am here… I just want to mention again how much I love these guys. "In situations such as the one I’m talking about, someone will probably say something like "I think the general theme of Tran poetry is not philosophy so much as pride – pride in the discovery…

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reload – step 8 – back on track    Well, I spent the last bit of time organizing my email, and started downloading Ultradev. I might take this moment to mention FlashGet, a pretty spiffy high speed downloader. It’s not perfect by a long shot but it sure has some good points. I also went off…

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reload – step 7 – dammit!    I knew I would forget something. My Outlook rules. I am on like 100 mailing lists and I forgot to back up the rules that auto-sorts them into folders for me. That sucks.

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squirrels and blonds – oh my god While I have a moment let me point you at the website for the video game "Conker’s Bad Fur Day". If you take a moment to enter you will find a quicktime of a TV commercial (extended and uncensored) that shows a truly outstanding blond in the lead…

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reload step 6 – oh no! Ok. I’m an idiot. The Norton System Works 2001 disk is at Tatsumi‘s, as is my DreamWeaver Ultradev disk, Fortunately she was still awake so she zipped the files up and is sending them to our web server at Rackspace. That will allow me to download them myself later…

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reload step 5 – userland Offfice 2000 Service Pack 1 installing now .. the loading continues!

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reload step 4 – userland Installing Offfice 2000 now, and then I will put in some other utility stuff. More later!

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reload step 3 – update update update Ok… Service Pack 1 is installed and looks good. I am doing all the other critical updates needed so I will be all happy soon. I’ll take a moment here to mention how smoothly this sort of thing goes with Windows 2000, it would have been a bit…

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reload step 2 – look, it’s alive! Well, that went as well as could be expected. The system booted just fine and I blew away the C: drive. There is currently 7.45 GB left on my C: drive out of the 8.78 GB I started with. I am currently grabbing the windows Service Pack 1…

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