And we're back (sort of)

If I actually posted here more often, you’d have noticed that everything looked a bit weird around here for a week or two, because the WordPress theme I was using broke, so the site reverted to a default, and everything went ugly. But thankfully our fearless leader Steve was able to update the theme (which,…

So, about those photos

Having been unsuccessful at figuring out which wire to wiggle to get my second hard drive working again, I gave in and paid a professional to look at it.  And it turns out that the reason my wire-wiggling wasn’t working this time was because the hard drive had entirely failed.  So, unless I want to…

It lives!

inally I’ve got my new computer!  I almost had it a couple of weeks ago, but then I didn’t.  But that’s a story best told with a ridiculous number of photos (don’t say I didn’t warn you).  So, without further ado, how to build a computer: Except it wasn’t.  Because that’s where it all started…

Warning, a mostly technical and probably highly boring post (but there are a couple of pictures at the end)

nd… it’s not working.  The last of the computer parts arrived yesterday, so we (ok, mostly MrPloppy, with me looking over his shoulder going “ooh, what’s that wire for?” and occasionally actually being useful when my smaller hands could fit into tight corners his couldn’t reach) spent the afternoon putting it together.  And the build…