iTunes = Bad?

No. Way. Apple = Mac = better than your mom!

But it's true actually! At least if it decided you're the lucky user that gets to lose their CD/DVD Drives. Like me! Yes, the problem is I didn't have a clue what the heck caused me to lose my drives, all I knew is that Windows Defender was yelling at me to restart, which I naturally put off, and when I did my drives were gone, even my Deamon Tools Virtual Drives wouldn't work.

Anyway, After Googling the entire error code I found this page:
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/35761/

How to fix error (code 41) after installing iTunes:
(NOTE: I don't offer troubleshooting for this as I don't know why it works.... If it breaks more don't blame me!)

Start > Run > Registry Editor (regedit)

Search for:
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

or just navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

IMPORTANT:
At this point, click on the folder in the left window and then back it up (File > Export) incase something bad happens.

Next, select both (ctrl + click) UpperFilters and LowerFilters.
Right click them, click delete, then click OK.

Finally go to the divice manager and uninstall the drives and reboot.

Note: I can't say this will work, and if it makes things worse, you'll probably be able to return things to the way they were by importing that backup (.reg) you made.


Alternately you can try:
I've heard that simply uninstalling iTunes and then reinstalling it works too, but I dunno about that.


My Advice, if you haven't installed iTunes, don't if you don't have to. Instead just get JetAudio!

Chao!

Relationships? Hm....

I meant to post about this like right after I had the conversation, but.... well I'm me and so I just put it off and seeing as it's 3 in the morning I thought: "Hey! Why not write a blog post now?" and so here we are.

Anyway, I had a neat conversation, last tuesday, about boyfriend/girlfriend relationships and I realy want to use this post sort of as a refinement of how I feel about dating, for now anyway.

How I haven't read any books about this and I haven't really talked to anyone about this a whole lot but I think that a "boyfriend/girdfriend" relationship isn't so much "dating" as much as just being friends. Obviously there's more ot it than that but if you focus too much on what the media is feeding us, that we have to look a certain way to be cool or do certain things to be liked (relevent link), then you lose sight of what you should really be aiming for: just loving each other.

Have you ever noticed how almost every single one of the couples still married after 60+ (or how ever long) years always seem to be friends with each other? They're certainly not sticking together because the other is "hot".

Now certainly high-school relationships can be a good thing. They offer a semi-casual place to make mistakes and have fun, they also act as stepping stones into deeper relationships, but all the same, the focus needs to not be on what the media tells us and more on just being friends, since it seems that's one of the skills most of us need the most practice with.

The thing is most of us think we're much more mature than we really are and that tends to lead to broken friendships, which is never good.

I think that most people need to realize that a relationship built on things like looks and sex and peer-pressure is like builting a sand castle, it won't take much (say a stick of dynamite) to ruin.

"Falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift....
but the groth of true friendship may be a life long affair."
- Sarah Orne Jewett

Now, I totally understand things seem a lot different when you've got a crush on a cute guy/girl or your friends are like "Dude, you went to a moive with her, why havn't you asked her out yet?" but this is just something to keep in mind.

One way to keep friends from pressuing you about a relationship is "group dating". Go out with big groups of people (eg. youth group) that way even if you do sit by someone you like it's less likely someone will think of it as a "date".

I know there was at least one other thing but being 4:30 am my memory isn't quite the best. So.... yeah! That's sorta my outlook on boyfriend/girlfriend relationships. In short, being friends is the best way to go.

I get the strange feeling, like I do with most of my posts, that this post is incomplete and that I left something out. If it seems incomplete to you, lemme know, I suck at critiquing my own work. Thanks ^_^

Anyway! Voi!

Happy 666 Day!

Before I forget, I wanted to wish everyone a happy 6-6-06 ^_^

That and it turns out the Flying W Ranch only hires 16 year olds and 15 year olds turning 16 in 3 - 4 weeks from the time of the interview. Basically, I have to wait till next year to get a job there >_<

I guess this means no cowboy hat! At least I can still use Andrew to get the discount on stuff I buy.

Children in the Movies

I saw this article link thingy on MSN.com that had a picture of the kid in "The Omen" and it makes me wonder who are the parents of the little 7-year old boy that they let him play the role of who I'm pretty sure is the Anti-Christ? I mean that's got to be a pretty intense role to play even for an adult, much less a child.

Not to mention the fact he's basically playing a character that's you know.... pure evil. That's got to have a long lasting impact on a 7-year old's mind.

Now, I'm not quite sure how you'd set this up, but I think there should be protections for children younger than 13 or whatever so even if their parent's consent to letting them be in a movie they wouldn't be able to play star roles in certain movies that could be potentially harmful to them.

After all, people say that playing violent video games causes violence in children and that they shouldn't be allowed to buy them, I don't see how staring in a horror movie could be any better for them.

Now, I haven't seen The Omen, and I don't really care to, so maybe it's not as bad as the trailer portray it, but for the moment that's how I see things.

Anyway!

Chao!

Bi-Wii-kly Maybe

Even though this still wouldn't be a Bi-Wii-kly post.... I think I might change to that anyway, since I'd have even more trouble keeping up with it than I already am. So.... yeah!

Anyway, I'm hopefully going to be getting a job at "The Flying W Ranch" which is an Old Western Style Mini Town Place that you can walk around in and shop and everything, then if it's bad weather outside you go sit down in this big building that's packed full of Picinic Benches, other wise you sit in a big courtyard area before getting in a line to get either Brisket or Chicken (or if you paid more Steak), Baked Beans, a Potato, two biscuts, Apple Sauce, and a slice of spice cake. Oh and you can have Iced Tea, Black Coffee, Lemonaid, or water.

So anyway, after you get like.... 30-45 minutes to eat then you get to watch a bunch of skits and stuff. Then you go home full!

So yeah, I would have been interviewed today but the interviewer person had the day off >_< So maybe tomorrow, we'll see. I'd really like to work there because A) Andrew's worked there for about a year now, B) Brian now works there, and C) It'd have been really easy to get a job there since I've got Andrew to vouch for me!

Oh, and I want to wear a cowboy hat! ^_^