Blog of Ortz

Here are some songs I wrote, both works-in-progress. I made them in FL Studio:

High Orbit

Unlevel

I’m working on another that is really more my style, but I can’t work on it until I get my hard drive back. And about that…

I had to send it back, I think my PSU killed it. So I need another one of those too.

PS: Does the top of this look reflective to you?

Just thought I would share a great comment made on HotAir by “Professor Blather”.

I’ll never understand people who’s patriotism varies depending on who is in office or what some President or congressman may have done or not done recently.

It reminds me of liberals who proudly screeched about not flying the flag after Bush’s reelection. The flag isn’t about Bush, or the government, or any particular policy.

It’s about an ideal. It’s about the founder’s vision. It’s about the America that could be and sometimes is. It’s about the people and the history and revolutionary ideas of freedom and liberty and equality.

Patriotism has nothing to do with the government currently in power.

My patriotism never wavers or changes or fades. If yours does, you aren’t anyone I want on my side.
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One of those miscellaneous blog posts…

So yesterday my fresh Windows installation on a new hard drive started freezing on me. Not only that, but I was getting write errors. (Little yellow popup in the corner saying Windows couldn’t write something to the hard drive.) I was afraid that it was dying, especially since a lot of the reviews said things about the drive being DOA or dying shortly after installation. So, trying not to panic, I tried using different data and power cables. Which thankfully worked. But like an idiot, I switched out both at the same time so I don’t know which it was. I’m thinking it was the power cable though because it was using a whatever-to-SATA adapter, which I switched to my PSU’s only SATA power plug.

Also, the 200GB hard drive I had Linux installed on decided to jump on the death bandwagon and die too. Unlike the other hard drive that died, this one had things on it that I will miss. Although they are probably replaceable. So now I have to figure out how I want to install Linux. I’m thinking of trying out Ubuntu. I had Gentoo installed before. I like Gentoo, but it’s much better as a server than desktop because people don’t generally want to have to recompile their kernel when they decide to install a CD burner or the like. (I’m not saying it’s completely necessary, blah blah…) Some people just want it to work. And you can’t say I’m lazy cause my server runs Gentoo.

Well, sort of.

I’ve got Windows installed and got a lot done as far as updates and installing apps I use most like mIRC and Firefox. And about Firefox; you realize how awesome the way it does profiles is when you’re restoring one and Firefox is completely back the way you had it, extensions, cookies, bookmarks, everything. And all you had to do was copy one folder over.

I installed TF2 and got a chance to play Badlands for a few minutes. It was fun, although I need to play it some more and get the hang of it. (Meaning play it enough to overcome my horrible sense of direction.)

PS: SATA drives are awesome [/obvious]

Well my laziness got me in trouble again.

I didn’t want to move my Windows installation off my old 60GB IDE hard drive, and of course it died on me.

Fortunately I didn’t lose much. Just Windows, and my Winamp and mIRC installations. Plus a few apps. Although I can’t even remember what I had installed on there so that’s a good thing.

My new drive is on the way and should get here sometime this week. Seagate 500GB SATA in case you were wondering.

In other news, my site was down for a while because of router/connection problems.