windows XP

Dear Windows XP,

You have been a fine and stable operating system for me.

You have, over the years, supported my myriad ghetto-tech devices, allowed me to plug all sorts of vile and unusual foreign creatures into you, and have continued to perform strongly, like a beast of burden that for no readily explicable reason thinks that you should have things like a Fax service running in the background.

OK, we got over that.

For the most part, you have supported the strange and exotic filth I have plugged in, and resolutely not engaged in cascade failure, the like of which made me despise your forerunners.

You have, in fact, made me come to feel a warm and happy understanding of my PC, and how I can generally expect it to work. Months of uptime have not gone unnoticed.

But today, you decided that on a reboot, you would no longer see my fucking keyboard.

It's a PS2 keyboard, and you've been OK with that for three or four years now.

It's not even a very good keyboard. I think I got it from PC World, and it has all of those stupid buttons on the top that apparently will enhance my internet experience. In some fashion. Which is why I removed them with a screwdriver.

Things had been so good.

From time to time, I had installed things that I probably shouldn't have, and, like a patient and sadistic parent, you had reset constantly on the reboot until I renamed the device drivers. This isn't the most user-friendly behaviour in the world, but in fairness, Ubuntu hasn't got a fucking clue what to do with my Native Instruments Kore 2 control surface. Or expensive soundcard. Or, until recently, wifi nic. Swings and roundabouts.

But today, you decided that my keyboard didn't fucking work. You twat.

I'm accustomed to the reboots, I don't mind unplugging shit until you screw your head back on then plugging it all back in, incrementally.

It doesn't happen often, so we can let that pass.

But seriously. The fucking KEYBOARD.

I am mollified by the fact you let my shitty spare USB keyboard work, so I could log in.

And, when, having removed the keyboard driver, FUCKING NOTHING CHANGED, I now accept the fact that I should have removed the seemingly important MOTHERBOARD SERVICES driver that was selfishly stealing IRQ 1.

This should have been obvious. I know that now.

But while I think we've found a new balance, and we can move forward from this... dark place...

If you ever stop responding to basic fucking input devices again, I'm going to buy a fucking mac.

And I'm going to run XP under parallels, in a fucking window, so help me god.

Even if it makes me sick in my mouth a bit.

¬_¬


I hope it never gets this bad again. baby.

Don't make me hit you.

we're hungry, beware of our appetite

I adore Eurochild, and Hell is Round the Corner, and while I knew that Karmacoma and Overcome were different takes on the same track, I knew they shared lyrics, but never really realised how much.

Tracks that I adore. Well, anyway. Well, anyway. well, anyway.

Hell is round the corner where I shelter
Isms and schisms, we're living helter skelter

If you believe or deceive then common sense says 'surely receive
Let me take you down the corridors of my life

And when you walk, do you walk to your preference?
No need to answer till I take further evidence.

I seem to need a reference to get residence.
A reference to your preference to say I'm a good neighbour

I trudge, so judge me for labour,
(The bond on me ensures my good behaviour)

I generally love Massive Attack slightly more, but Tricky, particularly here, manages to be so very fucking grimy and vile and delicious, so much that you want to wash his words off your skin, or maybe just sink down into them.

We're hungry, beware of our appetite.

My stuff, that's similar:

massive
johnny dee
beautiful
disenchantment

that's one way to put it

Gay unions are statistically less likely to produce children and therefore it is likely that less maintenance orders will be made.

That's some pretty awesome journalism right there, BBC.

Maybe they mean the TS guy that had the baby?

(no subject)

Wasssaaaaaaaaaaaaaap.