Cameron's Thoughts

One thing to note about this site. I likely won't be posting anything about my job that would in anyway risk me losing it. It seems Corecomm is paranoid and does a number of searches on themselves using Google. I have seen a number of hits in my referrer logs from the IP of the East Lansing office where I work at with the return page being a search for 'corecomm'. So, all the pages on this site mentioning Corecomm seem to get a number of hits from someone at my work. So, unless my employment status changes, I will likely be very discrete on any job related postings.

I finally got my laptop back on Friday. They replaced the motherboard and everything is working fine now. I am so happy. Haven't really been online much though as I had been fairly busy this weekend. Hopefully I will be able to catch up lost time with the computer shortly though.

Yea, in case you were wondering, I still do not have my laptop back. They said 5-10 days. That was 16 days ago.

I have just completed nearly a week with limited personal computer usage.  I am still using a computer all the time at work, but we have been so busy that I never have any free time to just surf and do personal things.  Execpt for tonight.  We finally aren't busy.
But, at home, I have been using a laptop because I am never able to just sit in my office and use the computer.  I have kids to watch.  So, the laptop is great.  But, the thing stopped charging right a couple months ago.  Seems the AC jack was not connected to the motherboard very well.  At first, you just had to jiggle the cord a bit, and the connection would be fine, and it would charge.  Then it kept getting harder and harder to do.  Eventually, getting the cord in the exact spot required over five minutes of tugging the cord in different directions to get it in the exact spot so it would charge.  And then, the slightest bump, and you would lose it.  Then, sometimes it just wouldn't charge at all if the machine was on.  It would stop charging the second the power button turned on, and then start again the second the machine turned off.  I took the machine in to Circuit City where I bought it and tested it on their AC adaptor so I could see if it was a problem with the cord.  Had the same trouble there too.   Called Toshiba, and the guy I spoke made it seem like a common thing.  Can't remember, but I think he might have even said that it happened a lot with the motherboards.  But, he seemed pretty familiar with it and said the motherboard needed to be replaced.  So, for the last week, the machine has been at a repair shop.  They said it would take 5-10 days since they would have to order the part and replace it.  Too bad it's not a desktop and I could have just fixed it myself.
So, for the time being, I am holding on.  I am getting way behind on reading my RSS feeds.  I hardly have time to read my e-mail.  And work on my site has almost come to a halt.  I did put some new code in the other night at work that let's me tweak certain things per post.  Like I can turn off ads in indivdual posts, or even make the ads bigger.  I plan on adding other 'per post' tweaks, maybe that's what I will do later tonight.  I have had a lot of free time today.  I just had a 12 minute gap between my last two calls, and the last call was only a minute long.