Yes, my laptop died. Support people said motherboard was fried. It's being taken away on Tuesday, the day when my essay should be in. Of course, the essays were in progress on said laptop and cannot be retrieved. Hard disk is welded in and impossible to get out. :'( I had planned on putting it into the boyfriend's computer (which I'm on now) but alas, it is not to be.

What I really don't get is that it was working this morning, and three hours later it was dead.

Trust this to happen 48 hours before the stupid essay deadline.

RIP laptop. You'll be missed A LOT, believe me. :'( :'( :'(

Edit: Got the hard drive out and into the boyfriend's computer so all is not lost. My laptop is going for repair under its extended warranty, which means any repairs will be free. Unfortunately, if they can't fix it, I'll have to get a new one (or the boyfriend will, since his is now mine MWAHAHAHA). Though come to think of it, that might not be such a bad thing... DVD writing? Yes please. Wireless technology? Yes please. Faster? Meh, not necessary. Though of course I would like my darling laptop to stay with me and I'd go without those extra features if it would come back... *Pokes it* No? ... No. Darn.

*Peers out from behind laptop* Ooh, would you look at that... My hosts moved me to another server and now I have no more annoying 403 errors or broken images. Hurrah.
They moved me last night so half the comments made on the last entry disappeared, but that doesn't matter too much. :P

Look! It's a new layout! One made completely from my own graphics - no brushes or base images used here that weren't my own. :D Meant to put it up a week ago but the server problems meant I couldn't. Anyway I know the greyscale colour scheme isn't very exciting but I had no other ideas so deal with it. If you previously had another skin selected, I changed things around so that you will see this one by default and no other. You'll have to reset your skin. Oh and I got rid of the stupid free layouts and blank "music" page. What a waste of space those were. The tutorials are next (oh come on, they're useless), once I've figured out what I can replace them with.

I'm supposed to be doing 3000 words worth of essays. So far I'm on 219 and they're in on Tuesday. *Sigh* Would help if I knew what I was doing, but the tutor who set these assignments is well-known for his vagueness. "Critical evaluation of a case study." What case study? What part of the case study? Evaluating it against what? Why? Who? Where? Argh.

Oh yes, everyone head over to Jem's site and wish her a happy birthday as she hits the big five oh two oh today! :D (hehe, just kidding about the 50 thing, she really is 20 :P )

My site is up-down-up-down. Was down all of today and has only just come back up, but my cPanel is still not working. Grrrrrr just when I'd done a new layout and everything. Guess you'll have to wait for that since I can't upload or edit stuff. Boo.

Edit on 6th January 2006: Yes, I KNOW about the 403 error problem. I don't know why it's happening but it keeps doing it to me every time I click a link, which then bans me from the homepage I just came from and locks me out for the next minute or two. I've talked to my hosts about it and they can't see what the problem is either. Argh.