Since it's been a few days...
Oct. 24th, 2006 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lance_sibley... I figure it's time for an update.
I stayed home pretty much all weekend as I was having a low-level headache that lasted about three days. It wasn't a bad one, it was just annoying. As it happened, too, I was double-booked - I had told John D. a few weeks ago that I would come up to his place to hang out, and it was also![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aprilsnark's birthday gathering, but I ended up going to neither and just trying to relax a bit. The headache went away by Sunday afternoon. (I don't know if it's because my schedule has been all over the place lately - last night I didn't get dinner until about 11:30, after I got home from class - or if it's because I'm not used to wearing my glasses as often as I have been recently, as I've been wearing them in class every night. Normally I only wear them for bowling or if I'm going to a movie or show.)
Sunday night I tried to start on the first assignment for my C# class, but it requires a few things that we're not learning until this week. I tried looking them up in some online manuals, but either I still wasn't understanding the concept, or the manuals weren't explaining them well enough. Hopefully I'll be able to understand them tonight. I see that the Powerpoint slides for tonight's class are up on the instructor's website, so maybe I'll read them over before I leave.
The Internet Scripting Languages class last night was nearly a waste of time - the instructor didn't actually teach us much of anything, but had us play around with creating layers. He only had two or three Powerpoint slides on the topic, and they didn't really explain it - they just gave examples. He seemed happy with what I had done when I showed him, but I'm not completely satisfied. The lab involved creating a menu, using layers, which would expand when one clicks on one of the top-level options, but I can't get all of my top layers to be the same width; they're only as wide as the links contained within them. I tried using the "width" parameter, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Argh.
When I got home last night, while having dinner, I watched the Doctor Who episode ("School Reunion") which I had taped. Utterly incredible. I never watched DW as a kid, so I've seen very few of the Tom Baker episodes (I do have the "Key To Time" box set, but like so many other DVD box sets I own, I haven't gotten around to watching the whole thing - in fact, I haven't watched any of it sincebasebrat came over and we watched part of it together, which was at least two years ago), but even I was moved - which speaks volumes as to the quality of the writing and the acting. The ending was just beautiful. *sniff*
Anthony Stewart Head was decent, too. :)
Though I'm a wee bit confused about something - I know about "K-9 And Company," but as far as I can tell from looking at IMDb, Sarah Jane and K-9's tenures as the Doctor's companions didn't overlap at all. Sarah Jane's last adventure was "The Hand Of Fear," in 1976, and K-9's first appearance was in "The Invisible Enemy," nearly a year later. How do they explain the two of them knowing each other? (I'm sure it's explained in "K-9 And Company," but I've never seen it. And as far as I can tell from IMDb's writeup, only a pilot was made - is that correct?)
I've also been trying to do some downloading - the first two Torchwood episodes, and the Jericho episodes that I missed. (To be followed by Heroes, since I haven't caught a single episode and it sounds like it's worth checking out.) My first attempt at downloading Torchwood apparently resulted in a bad file - the sound cut out around the 17 second mark, so I downloaded upgrades to my various media players. However, that worked even less well - I stopped getting any sound at all. And when I say "at all," I mean that my iTunes wouldn't even play any songs, and I wasn't even getting a chime when I opened up FreeCell and deliberately made an illegal move. I'm not sure what I did, but it all fixed itself after I rebooted today (having left my computer on overnight to complete re-downloading Torchwood 1x01). Or maybe it was because I ran Ad-Aware and got rid of some spyware that had gotten onto my computer. Weird.
Speaking of spyware, I do have one virus on my machine that doesn't seem to be doing anything and that Norton can't get rid of - I downloaded an alleged fix some time ago but it didn't fix it, so every now and then I get a pop-up that tells me that the file sutil.dll has the Vundo Trojan. The only way I can find to fix it without using the automated tool involves editing the registry, and I'm loath to do that. Does anyone have any ideas?
I stayed home pretty much all weekend as I was having a low-level headache that lasted about three days. It wasn't a bad one, it was just annoying. As it happened, too, I was double-booked - I had told John D. a few weeks ago that I would come up to his place to hang out, and it was also
aprilsnark's birthday gathering, but I ended up going to neither and just trying to relax a bit. The headache went away by Sunday afternoon. (I don't know if it's because my schedule has been all over the place lately - last night I didn't get dinner until about 11:30, after I got home from class - or if it's because I'm not used to wearing my glasses as often as I have been recently, as I've been wearing them in class every night. Normally I only wear them for bowling or if I'm going to a movie or show.)Sunday night I tried to start on the first assignment for my C# class, but it requires a few things that we're not learning until this week. I tried looking them up in some online manuals, but either I still wasn't understanding the concept, or the manuals weren't explaining them well enough. Hopefully I'll be able to understand them tonight. I see that the Powerpoint slides for tonight's class are up on the instructor's website, so maybe I'll read them over before I leave.
The Internet Scripting Languages class last night was nearly a waste of time - the instructor didn't actually teach us much of anything, but had us play around with creating layers. He only had two or three Powerpoint slides on the topic, and they didn't really explain it - they just gave examples. He seemed happy with what I had done when I showed him, but I'm not completely satisfied. The lab involved creating a menu, using layers, which would expand when one clicks on one of the top-level options, but I can't get all of my top layers to be the same width; they're only as wide as the links contained within them. I tried using the "width" parameter, but it didn't seem to make any difference. Argh.
When I got home last night, while having dinner, I watched the Doctor Who episode ("School Reunion") which I had taped. Utterly incredible. I never watched DW as a kid, so I've seen very few of the Tom Baker episodes (I do have the "Key To Time" box set, but like so many other DVD box sets I own, I haven't gotten around to watching the whole thing - in fact, I haven't watched any of it since
basebrat came over and we watched part of it together, which was at least two years ago), but even I was moved - which speaks volumes as to the quality of the writing and the acting. The ending was just beautiful. *sniff*Anthony Stewart Head was decent, too. :)
Though I'm a wee bit confused about something - I know about "K-9 And Company," but as far as I can tell from looking at IMDb, Sarah Jane and K-9's tenures as the Doctor's companions didn't overlap at all. Sarah Jane's last adventure was "The Hand Of Fear," in 1976, and K-9's first appearance was in "The Invisible Enemy," nearly a year later. How do they explain the two of them knowing each other? (I'm sure it's explained in "K-9 And Company," but I've never seen it. And as far as I can tell from IMDb's writeup, only a pilot was made - is that correct?)
I've also been trying to do some downloading - the first two Torchwood episodes, and the Jericho episodes that I missed. (To be followed by Heroes, since I haven't caught a single episode and it sounds like it's worth checking out.) My first attempt at downloading Torchwood apparently resulted in a bad file - the sound cut out around the 17 second mark, so I downloaded upgrades to my various media players. However, that worked even less well - I stopped getting any sound at all. And when I say "at all," I mean that my iTunes wouldn't even play any songs, and I wasn't even getting a chime when I opened up FreeCell and deliberately made an illegal move. I'm not sure what I did, but it all fixed itself after I rebooted today (having left my computer on overnight to complete re-downloading Torchwood 1x01). Or maybe it was because I ran Ad-Aware and got rid of some spyware that had gotten onto my computer. Weird.
Speaking of spyware, I do have one virus on my machine that doesn't seem to be doing anything and that Norton can't get rid of - I downloaded an alleged fix some time ago but it didn't fix it, so every now and then I get a pop-up that tells me that the file sutil.dll has the Vundo Trojan. The only way I can find to fix it without using the automated tool involves editing the registry, and I'm loath to do that. Does anyone have any ideas?
