Cleaned up Kuro

The driver download caught me off guard and nearly made me panic. All’s well though.

Left to do:

- Install Maple
- Install GE
- Install Baldur’s Gate
- Install Sims3
- Install Ubuntu

Yes I like my games why do you ask? Oh yes:

- Transfer music from Oldie (Dustyhawk’s external that I stole borrowed)

Original entry as appearing at Broken Shield and Sword.

Encouragement to write

Two years ago, Neil Gaiman wrote a Nanowrimo Pep Talk that kept me going. I still return to it once in a while to remind myself. Here it is, from the Nanowrimo archives:

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Original entry as appearing at Broken Shield and Sword.

Geekery failed

I am an epic failure of a geek. Instead of downloading the graphical installer for Ubuntu I went and downloaded the alternate install.

Sigh.

On another note, I discovered I made a mistake when I installed Windows yesterday; I had partitioned my harddrives into two, leaving the larger one unformatted by mistake. This is a good mistake though. I forgot that I wanted to keep my media separate from my Operating Systems and had almost installed Windows together with my media. This way, I have to use Wubi again, but it also means that hopefully my media will be safe.

Now if only my connection would be better (yes I know, my fault for blowing it last night).

Original entry as appearing at Broken Shield and Sword.