I'm ba-ack! - Well, for an hour or so anyway

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Yes, it really is me.

Who is that booing back there?

Anyway, long story short (or in fiver form to be more accurate) -

Network Router: GAK!
PHJ: $%*^=$!£@

Currently only one of the computers in the house can actually connect to the internet, and it ain't mine. So, I dunno when I'll next be on after today, but hopefully I won't have to wait yet another month.[/color:post_uid0]

[mudshark]

[quote:post_uid0="PointyHairedJedi"][color=#000000:post_uid0]Network Router: GAK!
PHJ: $%*^=$!£@[/color:post_uid0][/quote:post_uid0]
[color=#000000:post_uid0]mudshark: Ooo. Bummer. Is that a terminal sort of "GAK!", or might it get better?[/color:post_uid0]

[PointyHairedJedi]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Very definitely the terminal kind. The eulogy at it's funeral was beautiful though.

On a completely unrelated note (F sharp to be precise), I did finally manage to get a hold of something by Orson Scott Card (called [i:post_uid0]Songmaster[/i:post_uid0]) from Stoke library, which when I finally managed to join I discovered had only three shelves of SF. And pretty naff SF at that. And if you want to request something they charge you eighty pence.
*Mutters under breath a la Muttley*[/color:post_uid0]

[Katy Jane]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Thats what happned to our computer back in febuary, and that was definitly the terminal kind. and it took my parents five months befor they got around to getting another one.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]:throws flowers for PHJ's network router:
You have my deepest sympathies.[/color:post_uid0]

[Anonymous]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Bah. I read [i:post_uid0]Songmaster[/i:post_uid0] and hated it. Please tell me Mr. Card wrote some better books than that, because if not I don't think I'll bother reading any others.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Read the Ender's Game saga. It's [i:post_uid0]more[/i:post_uid0] than excellent. There are seven books in the series now, so get cracking! :)[/color:post_uid0]

[Things Are Good]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]The Alvin Maker series is also very good.[/color:post_uid0]

[taya17]

[color=#000000:post_uid0]Hmm. To tell the truth I haven't read that. The libraries here are very sketching with Card books, damn their souls to the bowels of the Infernal Pit. Is it any good?[/color:post_uid0]