Dead Day Diary

Windows hates me. It tries to leave me every chance it gets. Last night while trying to update some software for my digital camera, I let it reboot when it asked. Then it crashed. For the inexperienced of the ways of Windows going southward, here's a tip. When Safe Mode boots into an Kernal Error ... you're fscked.

The best thing Microsoft did in XP was it's wondrous repair mode - several times more effective than previous versions and has now saved my butt twice.

So yeah, sometimes I come home and work. Sometimes I come home and play. Then sometimes I wonder why one blue screen is a deeper shade of blue than another.