I’ve been hanging out at the Pirate’s Bay forum and finding much to say (pro and con) about PeerGuardian. Someone suggested for users of utorrent to drop the program and use a “good” ipfilter.dat file. Well, in an effort to find a “good” file I stumbled across this.

Supposedly you can use it to download various blacklists, then convert them to files that can be used by PeerGuardian and other IPblockers. Given that I couldn’t begin to figure out how to unblock an incorrectly blocked IP address via utorrent, and I’m already using PG, I’ve decided to give it a try.

It took me a bit of learning, but I managed to figure out how to download sources, create a list for PeerGuardian, and install it, so it should be a piece of cake for the computer savvy. 🙂

My computer is programed to go into hibernation if it’s not being used for more than 30 minutes. It did so while I was busy doing something else, but when I returned all I could get was a black screen. I turned off the computer, then turned it back on. I got a restart error message. I tried to continue with the restart only to have the computer perform a memory dump. After the third attempt I let it dump the information it had saved as it went into hibernation. This time it ran a checkdisk. What does it mean when it says a volume is dirty?

It seems to have rebooted okay. I’m currently running an anti-virus scan, just in case there was anything it missed anything, but I’m terrified to turn it off for the night.

About two years ago I asked a friend, who was feeling rather abandoned, to come join me and our friends on LJ. They refused on the grounds that they weren’t comfortable sharing their daily lives with thousands of other people. Even the friends-lock option couldn’t convince them. Today I learned he has had a Myspace account for some time, now. A fricken MYSPACE ACCOUNT!!! Yeah, that’s real private. *rolls eyes*

What really hurt was when I read that they had a close friend who helped helped out during their “difficult acceptance” phase abandon the friendship with them. Unless this person had a multitude of difficult acceptence phases over the past year and a half I can only assume they are referring to me, and I don’t think that is fair.

I was there when they thought no one else was but I have had my own shit to deal with, too. If it was that important, they could’ve contacted me. I could’ve set aside some time for them. Instead I’m labeled an abandoner.

I guess this explains why I haven’t heard from them in so long.

I’m feeling rather like a failure as of late. As much as I tried to, I wasn’t able to get any more writing done. Last week, Glenn wouldn’t give me a moment’s peace, this week the bursitis in my back had a good-sized flare-up making it difficult for me to sit, or lay on my side, for any length of time. I may be joining everyone else for NaNo after all, though I don’t think I’ll acomplish much more then. *shrugs*

To make me feel even more special I came to the realization that with our Plymouth show in just four weeks, I still can’t do any of the songs without screwing up. Even yesterday morning, after going over the entire show several times the previous night with the rest of the colorguard, I couldn’t rember all of it. What’s really scary is I spent half an hour trying to remember how to do a move I’ve been doing for YEARS, and therefore should be second nature. *taps head* It can’t all be “getting old”.

Jarret got his costume for Halloween this year. I don’t know the exact name of the beastie, but he’s some evil ceremonial magic type dude. I was a bit disappointed to see the evil magic pendant was actually a pentacle. 😛 I told him after Halloween he can be a Wiccan Homey with major blingage. 🙂 Since we have colorguard practice on Halloween I’m trying to decide if I’m going to dress up, myself.

I downloaded a copy of Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds from Rhapsody. I used to have the album, but then everything went digital and I never got around to replacing it with a CD. Having it on my Sansa for the next week or so should keep me happy. Ooooooooo-laaaahhhh!

Okay boys and girls. Got seasons 2 and 3 of Duckman available for download!