reports having picked up THE PHOENIX LAW yesterday evening! Official street date is Tuesday, December 5th, and it’s only on the shelves for a short short one month, so quick! Rush out and look for your copy! What? Not sure if you want to buy it? My heart, it is breaking! But wait! You can read a teaser if you must! Go forth! Enjoy! Spies and explosions and smoochies! Can’t go wrong with that, right? (I tell you, despite having Plenty On My Plate, and 3 all-new C.E. Murphy books…
catching up on being a fanboy
Ted and I watched the last episodes of season 1 Dr. Who yesterday evening. Having never previously seen Dr. Who, and having heard pretty much across the board rave reviews, I have to say the show lived up to my expectations. First off, I did know enough about Dr. Who to think it was right bastardly of Christopher Eccleston to only do one season, even before I had any emotional attachment to him. Now I think it’s twice as bastardly, because I adored him. (I said, when we were done…
eveshka is a HERO!
is a goddamned miracle worker. The DNS had been overwritten in my network protocols, so it was searching for a specific dns instead of finding them automatically. Wow, what a *bitch*. It’s a stupidly easy fix if you know what the problem is, but wow, what a bitch! YAY EVESHKA!
bug update
– hosts file not corrupted. will help me look through further things later, when we catch up with one another again – MS malevolent software thing run. found nothing. – spybot S&D found nothing – dns flush had no effect – not going through a proxy to reach teh intarwebs, so that’s not the problem – followed ‘s suggestion for crapcleaner -> avast -> spybot to no avail – have not yet tried Hijack This – currently running ad-aware ad-ware didn’t fix it – have a log file from /…
virus, or something
I’ve got a virus, or something. Any co.uk site I go to redirects me to a junk site. I’ve run a Norton virus scan and cleared my cache, neither of which has helped. I switched off some things in msconfig, which also didn’t help. I’m running search-and-destroy spyware software right now, but does anybody have any ideas on what bug I might be suffering from here? Help me, Livejournal, you’re my only hope!