Photo by Mark Pakula
I’ve been interviewed over at Benson Lau’s Blog: OCTC. I’ve always found interviews quite rewarding. I like to look at them as a ‘snap shot’ of where I’m at in this point in time. To view the interview visit: Obsessive Compulsive Tuning Cars
I’ve been a bit out of it since losing my PC and physically out of it too since Suga and I had our 2nd training session with the Frenchman (he killed us again!). Here are some random happenings:
Christina and I have been craving Wagaya for ages, we killed 2 birds with one stone by organising a Wagaya dinner with Felix and Di who ran us through our MC schedule for their wedding next week (eek!).
Di and Felix – wedding next week yo!
Yesterday Christina and I had lunch at Marque. A friend of Christina’s Mum had to pull out of a booking. Bookings have to be made months in advance so we grabbed it without hesitation.
My angel.
$45 is a killer deal for a 3-course meal of this quality. Amazing technique, different flavours but we didn’t really like the menu this time around.
Not sure when, or how but my GTI was side swiped by a white car. Not happy at all. I’m hoping it’ll mostly buff out (I would have been furious if it was the GT-R!).
I spent a bit of time cleaning the back wall of the tank today, decided to remove the black background too (again).
So I got the call from Jing today and it looks like my PC is officially dead. He’s going to be able to backup my files, which is cool but the PC itself needs a new motherboard and I’m not sure I want to dick around with that.
I’m going to miss that PC. It went hard for 3 years without any problems (well the video card did die under warranty but that was an easy fix).
I’m currently working on Christina’s old Mac Pro and whilst buying more ram for it is tempting (it’s only got 1gb of ram) I’m thinking that it’s not worth the time and hassle as it’s an old computer (2006).
A new iMac with decent options (8gb ram, upgraded i7 chip, 2TB drive and 3yr warranty) costs $3500.
For that money Jing could build me a PC twice as powerful and with 2x30inch monitors too.
In the end I ‘ve gone with the iMac. I just hit that buy now button (I suppose I’ll cry about it later). I’ll miss my dual monitor set-up but hey I’m already liking this mac keyboard (it’s the non-wireless one with the numerical keypad, much nicer to use that the thin wireless one that comes with the new iMac). I’ll be sure to bring my Microsoft Intellipoint mouse across too as I’m addicted to using the multiple buttons on it.
Fuck me.
Last night I clicked on a suspect link in an email from someone I know. The email message was “Check this out:” and a link. I thought clicking a link would never hurt. It brought up a pharmaceutical web site and I shut the window not thinking anything more of it.
This morning I was greeted by a windows warning box (which might have been a pop-up window) saying I had infected files and that I should restart. I ignored it but found that I wasn’t able to run Firefox so I restarted.
Boom.
A virus scanner called “Think Point” greeted me after my login screen and it prompted me to scan my disk for errors. On the laptop I googled “Think Point” and found that it indeed was a virus. I followed steps to delete it (using malware programs) but in trying to fix it I got the blue screen of death and no matter what I tried the PC just never recovered from there.
I dropped the PC off at Jing’s shop and hopefully he can save my working files but I’ll definitely be losing all my applications, most likely all my email settings, browser bookmarks, FTP details etc… this is going to be a massive pain in the ass.
Thinking about moving back to Macs but a specced up iMac for $7k? You’ve got to be kidding me. My PC is 3yrs old and with it’s RAID hard drive set-up I think it’s faster than Christina’s brand new iMac! A new PC that would be even faster than my old one would cost $2k.
No-one to blame but myself really. I feel depressed. Haha. Awesome.