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Thursday, April 29, 2004:

Yetisports.org appears to be down, but you can actually play the new game - YETISPORTS 4, Albatros Overload - here: http://www.prosieben.de/games/yetisports/games/. Have fun. Or whatever.
Haggis // 5:25 AM

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004:

I have only just signed up, but it looks to me that Gmail, Google's new e-mail service, rocks!
Haggis // 10:02 AM

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Thursday, April 08, 2004:

It is with slight pain in my heart that I decided to uninstall all file-sharing programs. They just ate up valuable hard disk space, not to mention my time. Now I have over 3 GB free. That's better. A smiley is appropriate here:
:)
Haggis // 5:33 AM

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Wednesday, April 07, 2004:

...furthermore, Disk Cleanup doesn't work properly, but I'm trying to find a solution to that.
Haggis // 10:44 AM

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Eff, you, see, kay. I'm pretty much screwed, thanks to Microsnot. Well, almost. I have 1.18 GB space left on my hard disk, and I decide to burn some stuff to CD to clean things up a bit. I'm assuming I need 700 MB free space for this, right? Wrong. First, Windows XP copies the files that need burning to some folder, then it writes them to an image file, on the hard disk. Thus, you need at least twice the disk space of the files to be burnt. During the burning of the CD, I saw the free space drop to under 300 MB, so I decided I'd rather cancel it. Windows is like 'Blah blah, are you sure?', and I'm like 'Yes.' Okay, the thing is cancelled, and lo and behold, I have 867 MB of space left. The couple hundred MB I lost are probably in some temp file somewhere, but I don't know where. The burning-to-CD function in Windows XP is obviously flawed.
I then decide that maybe defragmentation will create just a bit more room on the hard disk. However, the defrag program says there needs to be at least 15% free disk space for it to function properly, and I have 3% (???). So, that means on my 30 GB hard disk, I need 4.5 GB free space for 'defrag' to work! If I had that amount of space, I wouldn't even think about defragmentation! Now, I have two options:
1) To buy an additional hard disk (external, no less, for we're talking about a notebook).
2) To get my network back working again (which would basically mean buying a new router).
Oh, maybe there's another:
3) To wait for Longhorn and hope for the best.

Blah.
Haggis // 9:01 AM

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Friday, April 02, 2004:

Shocking news about the bomb found on the train in Spain ( link ), but at least half as shocking (okay, maybe a bit less) is this quote from that article: "Authorities have said the investigation of the March 11 bombings has focused on the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, which also has been blamed for attacks last year in Casablanca, Morocco, that killed 33 people and 12 suicide bombers." Apparently, the Washington Post considers 'people' and 'suicide bombers' different species. Maybe they're aliens or something? I think that's why NASA is up there now, to prepare a military mission to rid the galaxy of terrorism. Sounds like a good story for Star Wars Episode VII: Rise of the Terrorists.
Haggis // 11:51 AM

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Thursday, April 01, 2004:

Wow, look at all those amazing products on offer at ThinkGeek. Today. Hilarious!
Haggis // 2:52 AM

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