It happens sometimes–something hits me early in the day that throws me off balance and derails everything I’m trying to do, so I can’t get started. It just happens that today was a rather bad day for it to happen. I had a half rehearsal for Collision this evening–Brittany can’t make it tomorrow, so rather than miss her rehearsing completely, I met with her tonight. However, I was so late finishing my morning study in Corinthans that I had to interrupt making supper and push that later to work with her, and then finish that after rehearsal (at least I had the sense to keep it shorter than the usual two hours-I have another rehearsal with Baxter and Adam tomorrow night). Then I had a flurry of MySpace friend requests because I happened to mention my MySpace account on a list as part of a question about something only loosely related–and you all know how much I hate the way MySpace sucks bandwidth and computer resources, and would rather avoid it because it takes forever to do so little as load a page. Plus the time travel e-mail is still running a bit heavy. Today someone wrote about Kate and Leopold, and said that they found the site because it was linked from something connected to Terminator 3 page of IMDB.
So I’m busy, and it’s late, and it’s my own fault, really, for allowing myself to be so completely derailed by something stupid.
No, I’m not going to go into more detail than that. Let me get to the forum.
–M. J. Young
January 24th, 2008 at 9:53 am
If myspace is doing damage to your bandwith then it’s time you upgrade to a computer made in this millenium. What are you still using a Tandy?
January 24th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I’m using a PC-compatible system with an AMD-K7 processor, not sure of the processing speed but 600 sounds right.
I’m also using a dial-up connection, which has a lot more effect on bandwidth limitations than the processor speed does. It’s a 56K modem and connection, although it doesn’t always connect at that speed. Since the dial-up account includes a web space which is still getting traffic and an e-mail account that is connected to several important personal business arrangements (e.g., my virus software), it’s a bit complicated to dump it.
It’s true that my system doesn’t run flash that well, but this is more due to download speeds than processor speeds. MySpace is designed fore people with broadband connections–they’re not interested in the frugal who won’t spend the money for a high-speed connection.
–M. J. Young
January 27th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
MJ WROTE: MySpace is designed fore people with broadband connections–they’re not interested in the frugal who won’t spend the money for a high-speed connection.
Which would you rather have more of? Money or time? Upgrade to cable, it’s worth every penny.
John “A1nut”
January 27th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Sure. Should I have them send you the bill, or should I cancel my electric?
–M. J. Young