Big Five Test Results
Extroversion (36%) moderately low which suggests you are quiet, unassertive, and aloof.
Friendliness (76%) high which suggests you are very good natured, trusting, and helpful but possibly too much of a follower
Orderliness (40%) moderately low which suggests you tend to be unreliable, lazy, careless, and unmotivated.
Emotional Stability (26%) low which suggests you are very worrying, insecure, emotional, and nervous.
Openmindedness (76%) high which suggests you are very intellectual, curious, imaginative but possibly not very practical.

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Your True Nature by llScorpiusll
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The quality that most appeals to you: Strength
In a survival situation, you: Fight, and enjoy it
Your hidden talent is: Discrimination
Your gift is: Ability to acquire wealth
In groups, you: Work for a common goal
Your best quality is: Your compassion
Your weakness is: Your laziness
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OK, so my computer parts arrived yesterday, around noonish. i spent about 15 hours (i wish that was an exaggeration, but i’m serious) yesterday trying to get the damned thing to boot up, ended up having to go out and replace the video card (it got zapped when the old computer died, apparently)- i ended up with an All-in-wonder 9600 pro. so all told i’ve spent nearly $1000 this week trying to get this computer back up fo snuff.
So after the 15 hours i finally got it to run an install of windows 2000- and, lo and behold, the windows 2000 disk is just flaky enough that it somehow figured out a way to skip past the account creation phase of the install, but the install otherwise went perfectly. so i’ve got a windows 2000 login screen with no accounts to log into. MUST DESTROY BILL GATES. anyway, now I have to re-install it again. why oh why cant these things ever be simple?

Various and sundry meanderings

Ok, I finally thought of something I should have thought of months and months ago- i have the laptop computer hooked up to my wireless mouse and keyboard, and my big flat panel monitor. WHY did it take me 9 months to think of it, and WHY did I only think of it AFTER I finally ordered the replacement parts to fix the desktop? It makes the experience of using this computer so much better. I finally feel like i’m back in my element, surrounded by my computer component graveyard. Oh yeah, I fogot to post about ordering the replacement parts for the desktop =)
I went with an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard, and an Athlon XP 3200+. And oh yeah, a gig of PC-4200 DDR =) All in all a pretty nifty upgrade. Only wish it hadnt cost so damned much. This time I did the smart thing and bought an extended warranty, so if anythign goes wrong in the installation of the thing, i’ll be covered. Hopefully, I wont need to take advantage of that.
Things are a bit better at work than they were, but I still think I need to get the hell out of there in the very near future. Checked out monster.com, and there are a few interesting possibilties for paid internships that could lead to better things.. I’ll have to look into those.