Monthly Archives: November 2008

avg annoyance!

12 Wednesday Nov 2008

Posted by in computers, internet, rants

≈ 14 Comments

avg

Yesterday Nog turned on his laptop and got the blue screen of death, saying something about a problem with the user32 dll file and recommended that the operating system be restored.  Turns out this problem was caused by his ‘free’ anti-virus, AVG, which had released an update that mistakenly identified the user32 dll file (a key Windows file) as a Trojan Horse virus.

Thing is, we’ve been trying to restore the OS using the CD but – so far – it doesn’t seem to be working. The instructions say the process could take 1-2 hours, after which the laptop will reboot itself. But after about 4 hours it was still going so we decided to exit and reboot manually … and got the blue screen again. So we’re trying it again. Bloody false positives!f_cross.gif

Has anyone else had this problem?

live video

10 Monday Nov 2008

Posted by in music, video

≈ 9 Comments

[livevideo id=E484FB6BA4EA47E6A0F430E727374EEA/849304/tunas.aspx]

When Craig (aka zoomer) was here he “lent” me his old Supacam with the proviso that I start a video blog. But so far I’ve  only added a few very basic home movies to my Live Video page because I still haven’t figured out how to edit stuff. I downloaded some free editing software but it won’t recognise the AVI files from the Supacam. And when I tried using pretty Holly, her MOV files don’t even show up as an option (though they are in the My Videos file).  So … help?

Meanwhile, I shot this short video for Craig the other day.

He’ll know why and will maybe tell you his “tuna story”.

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green

09 Sunday Nov 2008

Posted by in cancer, food & drink, health & happiness, hospitals

≈ 15 Comments

My, doesn’t this look healthy!

Yep, I’m ‘going green’ this week in an attempt to help prepare my poor old bod for the upcoming major surgery (third one since May) in which they will slice & dice my liver and maybe hack off bits of my peritonaea.  I really should have had that zipper installed. I’m assuming they will just reopen the scar from the last op, otherwise my middle section is going to start looking like a road map. Perhaps I should take another scar shot before I go in so I can have before & after pics …

Anyhow, I feel quite positive about doing a healthy ‘detox’ week and I’m hoping that it will mean less hospital time if I go in feeling physically strong. So it’ll be mostly low fat meals this week with lots of veg (especially broccoli), and I’ll also start making my fruit purée again.  Plus I’ll keep taking daily walks and riding the dreaded exercise bike. AND I’ll be drinking lots of green tea (with the occasional glass of f_redwine.gif which is, according to the Anti-cancer book that healingmagichands sent me, a natural anti-inflammatory).

Right, time to get cooking …f_chef