Just had something funky go on. It looks like there's been some kind of corruption with the user profile (maybe?) and I've had to run through all kinds of nonsense to get things back to some sense of normality ( Read more... )

Managed to really upset my computer. Something to do with ini files corrupted. Am running sys restore, but it's taking a while.

Top tip: don't try to edit your music library on two separate apps at once while also editing in win explorer.

*sigh*

Saw the last HP film this afternoon and it was very good. It was the first one that actually seemed to hang together as a story instead of a set of scenes one after the other. The books didn't have that quality, so I do wonder if it was deliberate on behalf of the filmmakers. The music was wonderful, orchestral, its own character, so I've ordered ( Read more... )

So, LJ has been a pain for a while, so I've now got this DW account. The same username in both places, just to keep it easy. And I'll be crossposting, simply because that's all much easier than trying to do things twice. Assuming it works ( Read more... )

I'm watching one of the vast swathe of home makeover shows, and I'm always mystified by this idea that things are "in" or "out" for decorating in the same way they are for clothes (and, for this particular post, let's not get me started on my fashion rant ( Read more... )

Today I gave in and changed the temperature setting on my phone's weather app to Farenheit. Since summer has come back it's now officially too warm for me to be able to relate to Celcius. It's currently 10:30 pm and the weather tells me it's still 72 outside - lovely night's sleep coming up, then. Tomorrow it's claiming it'll go up to 82. This is ( Read more... )

How do I know? The sunburn. It's a really long time since I managed this. But we had summer for two weeks back in April and I just wasn't expecting it to come around again this year. Our summers have been frankly crap, so you can't really blame me.

I've just watched a programme about the 50 greatest Harry Potter moments. Some of them were good, though not sure they'd count as great. But the most bizarre thing about it was that they claimed Dobby the house elf was one of the most loved characters of the whole franchise. The various people who were talking did manage to keep straight faces, but ( Read more... )

Almost 100 people have been killed in Norway by at least one evil man (suspicions of more, but no clear facts as yet). The BBC News has gone with breaking news of Amy Winehouse's death. That's very sad, too. I wonder, though, what the balance of news will be now. 10 million people starving in Africa - pushed out of the news by 100 people dying in ( Read more... )

Today it's been raining on and off most of the day. I looked at the weather forecasts for my local area on the BBC and the Met Office - they both denied it would rain until late this evening. Nope, they said, it's just white cloud and sunshine. Sunshine? said I. Where? I checked again later. Nope, still not raining, they said, while I listened to ( Read more... )