*Proud*

[strange_complex]

Last night, I successfully took the old, clapped-out DVD drive out of my computer, and replaced it with a new one, which worked perfectly straight away! Rah!

I have never done anything which involved physically opening up my computer and doing stuff inside it before, and while I recognise that on the scale of things, what I did was not actually hard, I was still impressed that I managed to do it without breaking anything.

I was also interested to see just how much of what is inside my computer (it is a 'tower' type PC) is actually empty space. How does it still manage to be so heavy? That's what I want to know. I gave it a bit of a dust-out while I was in there, as it looked like it needed it, but only on plain metal surfaces like the bottom of the case: not anywhere that looked important or delicate.

I shall now at last be able to watch Christopher Lee's 1998 film, Jinnah, which I bought on DVD about 4 months ago, and haven't been able to see yet. He reckons it's his 'most important' film to date, so it should definitely be seen. I might just watch it tonight, in fact... It is a toss-up between that and another episode of Gormenghast on video: but either way, I get Christopher Lee Action^TM - yay!

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[bloodnok.livejournal.com]

'Tis a slippery slope. My Dad went from not knowing which end of a mouse to click to building his own PCs and extolling the virtues of Linux in a very short time.


Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!


*evil grin*

So what did you watch in the end?

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Actually, in the end I stared at 'Brainiac' for a while, and then went to bed and read, because I was too tired by the time I got home to watch anything I really wanted to pay attention to and enjoy. I will probably watch Jinnah tonight instead, though. The odds are you will know when I do, because there'll be a post about it here!