Nerdiness

[maxcelcat]

Had a strange desire last week to do Nerdy stuff. I had a list of things to try out, all of which were, I'm sure you'll agree, pretty damn nerdy:

• Install a network card in evildoom_bunny's old PC so we could get her MP3s off it
  
• Use parts of external USB hard drive case to connect an old DVD drive to my computer
  
• Find out how to put a counter on a wordpress based blog
  
• Find a new two-column wordpress layout for www.maxcelcat.com which was nice and dark around the edges
  
• Hand edit a cascading style sheet for said layout.
  

Unusually, all this stuff went very smoothly and didn't occupy me for long at all! I can now play DVDs on my computer - although describing the setup as rudimentary would be polite.
Next I have to:

• Get my linux box booting
  
• Get my linux box working, or
  
• Take said machine to a friend's place and let him play with it!
  
• Finish setting up my site...
  
• Assemble that Mac from the parts I've had lying around for nearly two years!
  
• Get the four port KVM switch working (this allows you to have four PCs connected to one monitor
  
• Get Neil's computer and see if I can fix it...
  

I'm not going to get much time this week to indulge in nerdiness - have to go to parties and stuff. Sheesh! :-)

Altogether now:
Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerdy!

Still, a certain evildoom_bunny turned down offers of Physical Intimacy yesterday because she was playing Age of Empires! Ok, so, not quite, but I did say "Hey come give me a hand with dinner" and she said "Hold on!!" and then I could hear a whole lot of archers firing at the same time :-)