Archive for April, 2004

2xH.no

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

Went to the Norwegian Hip Hop Awards last night.. frankly I didn’t know what to expect, after all it’s a Norwegian event. But it surpassed my worst expectations. First of all the music sucked. Apart from one group from South Africa all the groups were Norwegian, all of them rapping in their buttugly dialects. The noise was tremendous, I couldn’t make up any of the words and it was just loud. The acoustics of course sucked so it was mostly a matter of noise, in whatever shape or form. It’s funny how people go to concerts, not so much for the music as just for being there, as long as it’s loud, no matter what the source of the noise actually is.

I’ll gladly skip this bs next year.

2/10 for “Black noise”, the rest was utter crap.

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aarrgh!!!

Friday, April 16th, 2004

Did you ever have one of those days when you could imagine the universe conspired to convince you that getting up that day was a mistake? Last night was such a day. I routinely fire up Outlook Express to find out that the server isn’t responding. Hardly a reason to panic, it’s been known to die for unknown reasons throughout its existence, no ping packets being thrown back either. I head for the reset button but alas upon reset, there is no resolution to the problem. No I’m concerned, never has a reset failed to bring it back online.

Anxious to find out what the problem is, I turn it off and plug it in in my room, with a monitor plugged in. To my incredible dismay, it never completes the boot sequence, the post check fails and I’m sitting there staring at the screen for 2 minutes, it reads “primary master disk failure”. WTF???? This is the second disk to fail on me in a month. Before that I’ve only had one occurence in 11 years. Coincidentally, the other one (featured in the gallery section) had a mileage of 4 years, this one barely a year. (more…)

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