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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

A Co-Ed Update; Priorities & Issues; Victim Of Love Logo

WordPress is a solid blogging service, but I refuse to pay the fee necessary to edit and save a CSS spreadsheet for styling. I need a distinctive style for my blog(s), so WordPress is not good enough for me. Mind you, I checked into this right after I made my previous submission to this here site, but I haven't bothered making any statements about it until tonight.

I'm still not impressed with Google signing a deal with Verizon, and their stealth processes that run on my computer (GoogleUpdateNotifier, anyone?) prove to be a nuisance, since they don't actually let me know if and when an update to any relevant application is available, and simply install in the background. It totally drove my copy of Kaspersky nuts when it was actually installing a setup executable for Google Earth without making me aware of it.

On another note, my desktop computer is not seeing good days. The two-gigabyte (DDR2) memory is roughly half-free when you subtract the resources that the running processes require, but that's not the biggest problem. My main concern is my PSU; when I compute with resource-intensive applications, it shuts off. I was sort of concerned earlier when it happened today because immediately afterward, a faint smell of melting plastic or what-have-you came about. Not a good sign. It's a 420W PSU that worked just fine for the past year and a half of use, but it's always been near its limits because my GPU uses up 350 W on a good day, and the average mainboard from my PC's time used up roughly 60-75W to run. So it's pretty much stretched thin at all times, moreso when I game.

Anywho, I haven't written much on Victim Of Love, lately. With school comes lots of things running through the mind, like studying, making sure I remember my schedule correctly, writing my own attempt at "The Aristocrats" routine which should surely offend, and other useless things. Aesthetics are another matter. To put that in more understandable terms, I've made some logos for this concept. I'll just show one version below. Note that my signature is in the bottom-right corner.

Made with the latest build of The GIMP (2.6.9, I think)