NeoMorph on the Net

I swear to god that all my high tech stuff is out to get me. I’m sure as god made little apples that I will die due to a heart attack brought on by some problem due to computer problems or some related crap.
Here is the deal… I download my TV episodes so I can watch them when I want. So this morning I see that Universe and Ashes to Ashes have downloaded via my Netgear ReadyNas. I go into the living room and boot up my Acer Revo 3610 and then the first pain in backside hit… the graphics are distorted… AGAIN!. This is a recurring problem that distorts the text and graphics so that it looks like I am looking through a pixilated window. ARRRGGH.

So I say “Sod it… I’ll watch the vids in the bedroom before I go and fix it.” So I go into the bedroom, boot up the revo in there and it comes up perfect… no distortions on that one. So I start XBMC and look in the download folder… NO DAMNED VIDS.

Yup… another bug that has plagued ReadyNAS users for a long time. Sometimes it doesn’t save the vids correctly and they vanish into scotch mist.

*cue me banging my head on the screen*

Technology is supposed to make your life easier but the sheer number of bugs in the software that we get these days is mind blowing. Games come out infested with the things. Windows is so full of bugs that Microshaft spend all their time plugging holes it seems.
I think the day that I get a game with no bugs will be the day the universe explodes.

After much changes to Windows 7 I still ended up with distorted images and text on my plasma TV… then I found out that there was an MPEG Noise Reduction filter active on the TV… deactivating that fixed it completely. The weird thing that made me think it was Windows 7 was that when I changed stuff in the OS I had times where it was a clear image and at other times it was a distorted image. I ended up wasting hours trying to fix something that wasn’t broke… go figure!

I seem to have all sorts of things go wrong recently. First my my Xbox 360 dies on me (out of warranty of course and no RROD so no free fix) then a new SD card I order from ebay arrives… dead. Then a new game gets lost in the the post (and of course I can’t report it until two weeks have past).

It’s kind of of weird that the reason my game has gone missing is a volcano under a glacier in Iceland while I’m in the UK. Damned ash cloud is messing up flights apparently. Fire in Ice… kind of deadly because now there is flooding due to the glacier melting. So while I mourn my lost game I feel more sorry for the peeps disrupted by natures fury.

… everything goes wrong?

For instance, I decide to hang the new door to go with my spangly new kitchen. I think everything is going great and get the door on it’s hinges and then close the door to see if I have got the fit right… and it’s perfect… well, sort of. It closes so well that I can’t open the damned door as I had yet to put the handles on. All my tools were in the hall where I was doing the work on planing and routing the door. DOH!

It took me like 20 minutes to get the darned door open. In the end a cake icing smoother managed to lever the darn door open. Then about 15 minutes later I end up stuck again… this time I remembered the cake thingy and got out a bit easier but OMG… talk about Homer Simpson DIY style.

Then I go to throw some rubbish outside and notice that my cable tv cable is dangling on the floor in front of my front door. I ring up Virgin Media (my cable TV/Phone/Internet supplier) and get put on hold several times… they then came back and told me that a call out would cost me £99. FRICKIN £99  just to make some cabling safe. The guy on the other end of the phone then suggested getting some black tape and taping the cable out of the way. Yeah, right… good service Virgin.

So yeah, not a good day. Here is hoping I can get more done tomorrow.