As mentioned in an earlier blog, my computer died (or to be more technical the operation system hard drive went bad). Well it looks like I've gotten around that problem.        I got a new computer for my birthday (or at least that was the excuse, even if my birthday is still a few weeks away, although I suspect I could have used any excuse on my parents but that's a completly different story, someone remind me to ...

       So I was playing Civilization and noticed I had no sound, hadn't noticed sound since I installed it the other day. Figured it was just the game being messed up and didn't worry about it, not like I play the game for sound anyways. But then I noticed sound wasn't working for anything.        So off I go to check settings. Is not muted, can't find any settings errors, speakers are on, but no noise is coming out. C...

So i just deleted my operating system (and everything else on the drive). Once again encountered one of windows odder features. When you delete certain files (mostly in the windows directory), windows goes and recreates them. No errors on deletion, just *poof* their back. Could be confusing if you don't realize it's doing it. "Why isn't this directory empty? i just deleted everything in it. *click click click* there now it's empty. ... there are still files here?! why won't the...