Well, as I said yesterday, my laptop died. It started yesterday afternoon, I was using it fine and then all of a sudden it started to make a horrible grinding noise. I hoped this was just from the fans, but as I listened and the computer froze, I realized it was not the fans, but the hard drive. I tried everything I could think of with my limited resources at home to get the machine to boot and the drive to work, but nothing worked. I had a 3 year extended warranty on the laptop with Best Buy, so I called them up to inquire about how long it would take to fix, it was clearly a hard drive issue, they told me 3-5 days. Seeing as how I needed some of the information on the laptop, as the work I had done last week was not backed up, I did not want to give them the laptop right away. I decided to leave home a day early and head back up to school, at least there I had my tools and another working computer to work off of. I got back up to school and tried a few things with no luck, I couldn’t get the machine to boot off the hard drive. I created a bootable linux CD with “Damn Small Linux” and was able to boot into that, from there I was able to mount the dying hard drive and luckily recover most of the data I needed. With that I felt much better and although I didn’t want to give up my laptop for a week to Best Buy, I didn’t want to spend the $100+ to fix it myself when they would do it for free. Today I gave them my laptop, told them of the issue and now I wait to see if they actually fix anything. Not a great way to end spring break.

On another note I created a Tumblog, you can see it here: http://boredmind.tumblr.com/. It’s not too much, basically a place where I can post quick little things, pictures, quotes, links and such without making a full blog post about it. I will integrate it somehow into the sidebar or the main part of the site so you won’t have to check two sites, only this one.

That’s about it for now, break is over, work has begun again. Back to working on things I don’t want to do.

My laptop died today. The hard drive is eating itself, I can hear it. More to come.

Well, I have been meaning to make a post about Twitter, but I really couldn’t do it justice, so I will let this guy do it.

If you’re not using Twitter yet, you may feel as if you’ve missed out. Twitter has not only tipped the tuna (begun to peak in popularity), but by some estimations, it has already jumped the shark (devolved into inanity). Don’t let massive overuse by SXSW geeks or the whining of Twitter haters who weren’t there and missed the fun put you off. Twitter is an interesting and practical real-time messaging system for groups and friends. It’s just not completely obvious how to get into it. So, here’s a quick newbie’s guide to this new platform. This guide doesn’t cover every feature of Twitter, but it should help to get you started.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is an online service that lets you broadcast short messages to your friends or “followers.” It also lets you specify which Twitter users you want to follow so you can read their messages in one place.

You can find the rest here.

I love all these pictures of cats doing funny things with even funnier captions that have been popping up all over the net. You seriously need to see some of these. I have put a bunch of funny ones into a flickr album, check it out here. I’ll post a few here to get you started.

I’m off to go shopping today in Manchester, hopefully get a new jacket. Although I hear spring is on the way, better be! It’s almost 50 here today, that’s about 70 degrees warmer than it was up at school last week, I’m sick of winter.

I’ve been becoming more and more addicted to twitter since break started, it takes over! I post, I read other posts, I troll the site, it’s so much fun. I suggest checking it out www.Twitter.com, it allows you to post about what you are doing, thinking, listening to, whatever and it’s easy. Do it from the site or from AIM or your phone. Use it for good though!

Anyway, off to shower and then to shopping. YAY!!

Well I’m on my last official spring break ever.  Kind of bittersweet.  I have never really done anything for break, I might go to Boston or day trips but never really went anywhere exotic like some.  This week I will mostly sit at home, I might go back into Boston, probably do some shopping, but per usual I won’t do anything crazy.

I’ll probably make a few more posts this week, got not much else to do.  Rob won’t be, he’s in Nebraska and then Oregon for the week, lucky him.  If you want more updates check out my Twitter posts http://twitter.com/BoredMind or on the right side of this page.  If you’ve never seen that site before, kind of fun to use and check out.

Anyway, I’m out of things to say for now, I’m going back to playing G.R.A.W. and waiting to go pick up my step mom at the airport.

Have a great break!