Well, it appears I lost all the stuff I had on my SATA drive. I had purchased a new 320 GB drive about two weeks ago. I moved to it all my video and MP3 files and then formatted my two old drives. That went well, but now Windows won't recognize the new drive, or it does, but it wants to format it from scratch. I did everything I thought I could do to get it working, but without luck. I even checked the connections. I've never had a drive so big, so it makes me wonder why this has happened. I may not have had it setup right to begin with. It's not a huge loss, it's a pain in the but to be sure BUT I do luckily have all my video backed up, i.e. in the original tapes. So I will simply have to redownload and work with stuff from scratch. Which isn't a bad thing. I just want to make sure if I ever want to format my primary drive again in the future, anything I put on the SATA drive won't be forever lost each time.

So today I reinstalled things again on my primary drive, Windows at least. Right now, I am simply updating windows, and going from there. In my initial reinstall earlier this week I think I had some strange worm or virus that fracked things up but I was able to properly install my virus scan and firewall before reconecting to the web and things appear to be okay.

My stomach has been a bit off today. I was supposed to go with Lisa to the fireworks tonight but I decided to cancel, I feel bad cause I cancelled late, in fact, I fell asleep for a few hours and slept through her calls to me. I didn't talk to her until about 8pm. I feel bad, like I've let her down, cause I've not been looking after my health lately.

Back to some reading.

- Steven

Quote of the Week: July 31, 2006

"On the block we could still hear the screams of the children who were being murdered, then only sighs, and at the end everything was enveloped in death and silence. The next day the men told us that the SS men loaded the children into wheelbarrows and dumped them into the fiery ravines. Living children burned like torches. What did these children do to suffer such a fate? Is there any punishment adequate to repay the criminals who perpetrated these crimes?" - Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, from her memoir "Auschwitz: Tales from a Grotesque Land"

Critics would give my life an A-!

Well, you certainly burned a lot of money to get here, didn't you? Not that it didn't pay off. Many have said that it's not possible to have a good film that incorporates everything, and your life is proof of that. It incorporates everything, but that doesn't make it exciting to watch. Amid the confusion there might be some plot, but one things for sure, everyone'll find something they want, from violence to romance. So the critics will love it, and the fans will hate it; the critics will accuse the fans of not being artistic enough, the fans will accuse the critics of being too psychotic. And amid all the namecalling, publicity for your movie will soar, reeling in record returns on the millions you spent blowing up those fourteen aircraft carriers. Well played, bud.

What rating would movie critics give your life?

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Quote of the Week: July 24, 2006

"This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for something which will certainly be terrible, and nothing happens and nothing continues to happen. What can one think about? One cannot think any more, it is like being already dead. Someone sits down on the ground. The time passes drop by drop." - Primo Levi, from his memoir "If This is a Man (Survival in Auschwitz)"

Comment to this and I will assign you a letter of the alphabet. Then go to your journal and post a list of 10 words that begin with this letter and what they mean to you. I was tagged with the letter X, the twenty-fourth letter of the alphabet. I took this experiment one step further by finding fifteen words instead of ten.

And no, I'm not trying to show off ;P

1) X - Marks the spot (noun). 2) X - Roman Numeral 10 (noun). 3) x - an unknown quantity (noun). 4) X-Men - a team of mutant superheroes whose adventures, concerns and explorations highlight both the high and low points of human behaviour (noun). 5) Xanadu - thank-you Coleridge for your thoughts of an idyllic, exotic or luxurious place (noun). 6) Xavier - a Spanish Jesuit missionary (biographical name). 7) Xe / Xenon - a heavy colourless gaseous element (noun). 8) Xenocrates - a Greek philosopher (biographical name). 9) xenophobia - a fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners (noun). 10) xenotropic - replicating or reproducing only in cells other than those of the host species (adjective). 11) Xerox / xerox - photocopy (transitive verb). 12) Xiang - a Chinese river (geographical name). 13) Xmas - a horrible looking and sounding abbreviation of Christmas... etymology: X (the symbol for Christ, from the Greek letter chi (X), initial of Christos, Christ) + mas (in Christmas), (noun). 14) X-rated - explicit sexual material, activity, dreams or naughty thoughts (adjective). 15) X-ray vision - one of Superman's greatest powers based on the X-ray which allows us to look at our broken bones (noun).

Bonus points if you use three in a sentence (the funnier the better).

"As water flows down the Ziang, I've found that X-ray vision can be used by people to fulfill their X-Rated fantasies which have no place at the Xmas dinner table."