I really must attempt to blog more than once every 3 weeks. However, the delay is justified... I am in the middle of moving house (or trying to - looking for a place and visiting stuff at every free moment I possibly have) and have had barely any time to sit still for the past month or so.

Anyway. Thank you for your comments on the layout, I had no idea people hated the last one as much as they did. Next time it might be an idea if you told me this, mmmkay. I'll do something about the too-dark dropshadows and link hovery stuff when I have a moment and possibly format the entries differently since it's exactly the same as with the old layout, and that's boring.

Also, I have a request. Can people PLEASE learn to read? On my FAQ, there is a question box at the top of the page. It is clearly marked as such. At the bottom (ish, more like the middle) of the page, there is a search box, also clearly marked as such. STOP CONFUSING THEM. I am sick and tired of deleting one-word "questions" because people can't read. >:(
/rant

Um, yeah. Now I will probably disappear for another month or so.

Edit: Comments closed early on this post because of excessive spam. Let me know if you have something to add and I'll re-enable them.

You will need the following tools:

1. A week-old laptop, present from relatives preferred
2. Um...that's it

Note: no brain is required for the purposes of this tutorial.

Method:

1. Make sure you have finally finished customising and configuring your new laptop after having spent the last week getting lost in its preinstalled Windows Vista.
2. Decide to be geeky and install a second Operating System. You have done this before (it was a fluke, but no one has to know that) so this should be no problem at all.
3. Run through installation of said Operating System, making sure not to miss the part about partitioning the hard drive.
4. Yay, new OS installed. Reboot! Windows will then say it cannot run.
5. Realise you have completely messed up the partitioning and therefore have chopped Windows in half. Rectify this mistake by simply deleting and reformatting the partitions of the hard drive that you want back.
6. Reboot! Your computer should now display a lovely error message saying the boot partition is corrupted or similar. Congratulations, you have now completed this tutorial.

Oh yes, that was me yesterday. I've had this laptop a week and I've broken it already. Luckily I was able to repair most of the damage without reinstalling everything (yay rescue disk) but some things (e.g. wireless) are still broken :( Blah.

I have so much work to do :( I have 3 jobs on the go at the moment (why do they all come in at once?!) and I have no time to do anything. My university dissertation is due in in two weeks and I haven't even started it. Arrrrgh. There are loads of other things I need to do too but since they're not as important they'll have to wait.