Rubik's

Day 30

Day 31

I have discovered something incredibly important in the early hours of this morning. NEVER EVER TRY AND DO ANYTHING YOURSELF (of course I'm not referring to tasks like doing the dishes or shaving your legs...). There's a reason why renovations gone wrong feature so strongly on the home network. So many people have tried and failed that it's rather reassuring to know that you're not the only one. Always get a professional to sort out your mess. Google can't teach you how to plumb, burn DVD's (in my case) or fire a gun. God help us all. There are some skills which are so very important that they must be taught by a person rather than the faceless 'wealth' of knowledge that appears to be the Internet. Yes I'm a little bit furious.

As I said (or at least included in brackets) earlier I tried to burn a DVD. I started off perfectly. I sent my sister a text (and by proxy her computer savvy boyf) with a simple question about how to burn a DVD. 'You need software'. Of course I have no money so instead of buying the software and essentially asking the man at Dick Smith Electronics for help I went for the wow-with-that-$50-I-can-go-to-the-movies-like-4-times-and-on-the-last-time-I-can-buy-a-50c-lollypop' approach... damn opportunity costs. That approach meant plugging 'DVD burning software' into my favourite search engine Google. Because I'm lazy then naturally I just clicked on the very first website which I saw that said that it had the appropriate software. I downloaded it only to find that it didn't work so I downloaded another... You see I'm rather stubborn so I just kept on going until I was forced to realise that in fact I couldn't burn a DVD and went to sleep. I think that's part of the reason that I've been getting to bed so very late lately... I think I did the equivalent of tearing down the front wall of a house and then sleeping in a sleeping bag on the lawn jsut leaving the house to mend itself... Hmm. I think it's a good thing that I'm not a builder although I have always had a dream to be one of those really sexy girls who can hack computers. Okay they're not sexy they're nerdy but they do always seem to get the moderately attractive guys. It;s undoubtedly because they're so confident as they don't need to ask any square eyed boy for assistance. Perhaps I have a male ego in me after all yes I am sticking with the housing DIY metaphor. They want to provide for their family etc etc etc. Whereas I just want to survive in the cyber world..? Does that phrase even work?

You see what happened was (I learnt this from wikipedia... after the event) a malicious spyware piece of software 'piggybacked' off of one of the DVD burning programmes which I was downloading... A little bit like when you just want to hang out with your mate but then they bring along their ugly mean big brother... 

The manganese lining in all of this is that I've learnt from my mistake and as soon as I wake up tomorrow morning I'm going to tell my mother that I'm terrified a piece of spyware stole her credit card details and my new laptop (fingers crossed) will only have google chrome installed on it. I mean does anyone really need any other programmes. Wait perhaps I should get a divorce from the internet and instead stick to microsoft word to create a yearly compilation of these blogs posts at which point in time I'll publish them all in a flourish ... Although I think that Gustav is the only person who has ever read my whole blog or at least more than one post before getting bored so that probably won't work. Anyway that's something for me to figure out when I actually have the laptop...

3 Good Things

* HIMYM

*Intense Exercise and a new diet since I woke up this morning feeling like a deep fried pig.. or a rasher of bacon...

*Getting into the swimming pool without the correct amount of money... who would've known it's go jolly expensive to go to the pool? $3.40 is ridiculous with that money I could just buy a memphis meltdown and they wonder why there's an obesity epidemic in this country... 

After Dinner Mint: Does anyone else love watching Anti Spyware programmes operate? There's something lovely about watching the number of inspected files increase along with the number of infected files...

I should admit it I'll never be a sexy computer hacker...:(