Oh goody

[jessybxx]

This week, once again, technology, no matter how much I love it, keeps kicking me in the face.
First, I nearly lost Max after the car journey home last night.
Second, the smartcard programmer I bought (that was the risky thing, BTW) seems to work but the card seems to be busted. So I dropped it into the mail tonight to have Yama get it replaced. Meh =_=
Third, Semagic stopped working. All of a sudden. Even re-installing didn't help. It just freezes during authentication. So I'm using the web interface right now. I'll look for another client later. I know there's more than just one...
Halle-fuckin'-lujah.

On the bright side: I brought tons of delicious music and videos back from Yama's.
I'm gonna miss DL windows looking like this:



Well, can't be helped. At least I made good use of the time I had on 16 Mbit (and of my HDD space :D).
...
I... er... think I need to burn some DVDs *lol*

And Megaupload obviously needs some German lessons:



O_o

Comments

Re: because these things interest me :) (and because I'm nosy too)

[silicondreams.livejournal.com]

usually Italians are too stubborn to even bother learning English

Oh god, truer words were never spoken! It's not even a "everybody should speak MY language" thing like the French, it's more of a "...wait, there are OTHER languages? What are they going to come up next?" attitude that drives me insane.

As for the things that can be expressed only in some languages...WORD. The most difficult thing of being bilingual is when you want to say something, it's intelligent and witty and funny - and there is absolutely no translation for it in your language. Or in the other one, dammit. ;)

Re: because these things interest me :) (and because I'm nosy too)

[joekickass.livejournal.com]

It's not even a "everybody should speak MY language" thing like the French...

LMAO!! ♥ for that. It's funny 'cause it's true. XD

Heh, I didn't know people who spoke two languages faced such a dillemma. You wanna say something awesome, but the whole point'd get lost in translation. Boo.

Re: because these things interest me :) (and because I'm nosy too)

[silicondreams.livejournal.com]

Over the two years I went from "knowing English" to "being fluent", all my friends have learned that when my face goes completely blank in the middle of a conversation and I snap my fingers frantically it's because I can't find a suitable translation to something I want to say, and just go "thinking in English again, eh?" ;)