Ah, I dunno. Never really been totally happy with this cheap 'puter off some eBay store. Admittedly if I turned it off then the chance of it being all over heated and playing up when I got home would be lower.

Dunno if it's 'puter or sound card or XP64 driver or what but if I use a software instrument from teh keyboard, then when it gets lots of notes it seems to break down into crackling - getting worse with number of notes. Doesn't seem to happen so much in playing back MIDI only when I'm playing. Really shows up when I'm doing pianano stuff what with my excessive use of the sustain pedal to compensate for lack of skill. It's very annoying though.

I suppose, given the new Monday deadline I could fix my MFC entry a bit. Or it might give time for Evil Herring to enter if he feels the need.

Really, really need to get a better job (hence the OMWF in the title). In the position where I know what needs to be done but lack any influence as regards getting it done. Still, the attitude seems to be commonplace in many organisations "Experts: What do they know?" (thanks to The Onion for that).
Anyhow this PC has given me tremendous grief over the time I've owned it. Problems:

• Wont accept the 2GB of RAM I have. Doesn't matter which DIMM or which slot, only works with one.
• Random overheating(?) problems
• Only has 2 PCI slots
• Wont install 64bit Debian

Mind you, I have the feeling about pretty much everything I've ever bought that it doesn't ever work perfectly. The only exception so far is probably the Audi.

I got off track there. I'm sure I had a coherent diary in mind.

There's a girl a work who looks remarkably like Michelle Trachtenberg.

No, gone random again.

Favouritist blog thing for a while here. Whenever I hear the phrase "Great British Public", I think "if only they were".