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Hardware upgrade: completed!
It took me long enough but I finally bit the bullet and invested in a new desktop PC rig. My old laptop is on its last legs anyway, and I was getting increasingly frustrated with the little things it couldn’t do. It’s been keeping me connected to the outside world Internet for the best part of three years now and even accompanied me on holiday so it’s high time the poor old thing was given its well-earned retirement.
I’m not a gamer though, which meant my budget didn’t need to be too high. On the other hand I’m still a cheapskate who refuses to use a TV set so I wanted something that can play DVDs and, early on next year, Blu-Ray discs too so I settled on the best performance for around £500. I already splashed out on a 22″ LG monitor that can cope with full 1080p video so this figure only included the tower itself and the components inside. I almost kept to budget too…
Online proper
This is pretty much the completed site now. I could’ve coded my own layout but since I’m already planning one for my J-blog and CSS makes me tear my hair out, I’m sticking with this stock theme for now. It’s a crisp and clear layout that’s easy to customise, which means I have more time to actually update the thing.
You may notice too that I’ve deleted a lot of old posts; basically I was embarrassed at how bad my writing was so left them out entirely. The weather’s warm, my lawn needs cutting and the house needs hoovering so this is me signing off. Moar stuff to come.
