I just wanted to wish all my friends a very happy July 4th!



Hurray for fireworks!

They make me do this:


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Clubs:


Friends:

Well, lucky me, my computer just caught a major virus and has f'ed my comp up royally. All is not lost though, as 1) I've had this same virus before and was able to fix things in the past 2) I'm tech savvy enough and have the right software to fix this problem 3) I know how to go about fixing it, it's just going to take a while.

Basically what the virus does is it corrupts every file extension within windows so that it doesn't know what to do with anything (including .exe's). So yeah...it's pretty nasty. Luckily, I have Lavasoft's Ad-watch, which monitors and can either allow or restrict any changes to the windows registry. This program loads during startup so it can stop the virus before it does its dirty work. So you're probably thinking: "Well, sounds simple enough, just stop all changes to the registry. What's the problem?" Well, the problem is that after the virus struck initially, I had to do a system restore in order to get my comp to do anything period. As result, a number of changes have to be made by Windows to the registry in order for Windows to be restored and run properly. The problem is, the virus is still trying to alter my registry too. Ad-watch doesn't just tell you "this alteration is good and this alteration is bad", they basically all look the same. So what this means is I have to go through, one by one, and test each alteration. The first alteration that I'm prompted about during bootup I'll hit accept the first time, see if windows is stable afterwards, and then continue to the next. Every time I accept or deny incorrectly, I have to restore again and start the whole process over, as this either screws up the restore or allows the virus to do what it wants. This is a pretty long and tedious process as there are about 20 alterations in total to go through.

So uh...yeah...I'm gonna be out of commission for a little while. Hopefully this won't take me too horribly long to fix.

UPDATE: 06/20/07 - 5:40 AM

Well, I think I got everything back to normal. Only took about 3 hours too. Not too shabby! It's not completely certain at this point, but everything's looking good. I'm going to have to reinstall a few programs due to the initial system restore, but nothing major.

Okay...now I REALLY have to go to bed.

Clubs:


Friends:

Well, after a two year hiatus to work on my music, I decided it was time for me to start working on my artwork again. So keep an eye on my gallery, I should be adding a number of pieces soon (one of which will be submitted tonite).

It Feels good to be back!

Also, I'm happy to announce that I've joined three new art groups:

Finally this horrible week is over! School has really been a bitch lately. Every single class has had a ton of shit due all at the same time. Damn professors plotting to make my life miserable...grr...

Anyway, now that I'm done with all that, hopefully I'll be able to get some more work up soon.

Urg...I feel like my artwork just doesn't get enough attention. And I'm not trying to be a prick here or anything; I just think the problem is that most people probably just view pictures that are bright and flashy, whereas many of mine are more monochromatic and have more subtle detail that you can't see in a preview. Ugh...I just wish more people would take a second to look at my work and then decide whether or not they like it. So if you're on my page and you see this, please, just take a second to actually look at some of my artwork - if you think it's shit, that's fine, tell me that it's shit. I'd much rather you do that than simply not look at it at all. *Sigh* Oh well...I digress...