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IT Support
Posted by Bloggylife in UK, personal, troubleshooting on March 21, 2010
I popped in my neighbour’s room the other day and her guest was having problems with her laptop. So I said: “You can give it to me sometime and I’ll take a look at it for you”.
This went by until my neighbour called saying she is having problems herself, her laptop loads forever at starting up.
I took a look at it and it turns out she installed two anti-virus programs, removed both and installed AVG for her, since I am happy with mine 
Next day another one calls my room to make an appointment , she’s facing a problem with her laptop. I thought, I guess the word got out
This one’s problem was rather funny, I don’t know what she was fooling around with but she had a malicious software that kept changing her DNS settings, cleaned that up and there you go. It rather took sometime, by the end of the night she was tired and I was fired up I had to remove viruses manually and told her, that I had to Google certain processes and information to make sure they are legitimate and taught her how to remove programs and not have everything run at start-up!
I guess wherever you go, you end up being the IT support of your location
Some were afraid that I was getting annoyed by their questions. What is a DNS? Can I have two Anti-virus programs? Do I need an Anti-Virus?
I announced: “Don’t worry, this is part of what I do for a living” 
My Night Out
Posted by Bloggylife in UK, personal on March 18, 2010
In celebration of a major milestone, the end of the 2nd term, all of my class went out to dinner.
Last time we went out, was on Chinese New Year, we went to a Chinese restaurant and anyone who was not Chinese was not allowed to pay. So this time the rest of us invited the others for a night out.
I had so much fun, I was relaxed, laughed, ate good food, enjoyed conversation, the diversity is so amazing and enjoyable.
I’ve met a lot of people from around the world.
The Chinese are so amazing, they are very polite and tentative. In any meal gathering, they have to give a speech in the beginning stating the purpose and welcoming others and at the end thanking everyone. It is so nice 
We laughed, we teased, we took loads of pictures! In the most relaxing atmosphere ever, you can clap, give a speech, flash camera lights and no other table will look at your way.
As we were heading back, it started to drizzle … PERFECT
Tonight was a good night 
My Mug
Posted by Bloggylife in personal, troubleshooting, windows on January 27, 2010
Isn’t this funny I doubt anyone will talk to me if I was holding this early in the morning
On a completely different note, I noticed if I open the jpg I can rename the file from within the windows explorer and it will be updated in the jpg picture header! I didn’t know that so this was a cool discovery.
I tried it for txt documents, you can alter the name after opening the document but it won’t reflect on the opened document so if you save it, it’ll create another txt document with the old name.
Other applications like word, PDF, won’t allow that as it known.
Publish Bug Update:
So it seems the problem is solved, I managed to publish the previous post after using the Preview option, what happened is the “Contact Form 7″ plug-in installed an update so maybe this was causing the problem! Not entirely sure. Anyway I scheduled this post, so if I don’t add anything further, then that worked too.
2009 Hightlights
Posted by Bloggylife in personal, thoughts on December 31, 2009
How was 2009 for you? Are you one who analyses a year back and plans the year ahead or you don’t believe in new year resolutions and new commitments. I’m not sure what I had planned, but I do remember that I was so into my work that it was my life, I’d go weeks not doing anything except home-work-home and restart that process again the next day. I think I want to get more serious about having a life this year, it’s just about being happy with what I have and what I do. I always have this feeling that I am waiting for something then my life is supposed to make sense and I get this long awaited feeling this is why I am here
- At the beginning of this year, I became an aunt, twice
- I got promoted.
- I resigned
- Took up photography.
- I met new great friends
- I lost my friend.
- On a more personal level, I think I don’t hold back much as before, I share my feelings.
- Took a FUN trip with my family to Dubai.
- I went off to do a MSc degree.
Now that I have my list, I kind of feel sorry for myself I’ll update this list once stuff come to my mind. Maybe I should try something different this year, keep an updated monthly diary.
I think new year resolutions are more sentimental, a new beginning gives a sense of another try, a chance to do it right this time around from one’s perspective.
What’s Up KUWAIT!
Posted by Bloggylife in personal on December 23, 2009
I know, same old samo Heading back home for a couple of weeks My family wanted to come but it turned to be expensive and not worth the trouble and the weather is not stable, cold and snowy.
First on my agenda is SLEEPING! I want to sleep for a whole day! Cuddle up in my warm bed, that reminded me I need to buy ear plugs because I know my family won’t keep the noise down, bundle up and sleep for hours and hours undisturbed.
I asked my little brothers to prepare a list of the places they want me to take them, that list had only one place, Maki It’s all about food with them hehehehe, I knew Maki was going to be on the list, what I didn’t know, that it was going to be the only one LOL I told them I needed to be carried around, because for the past months I walked forever, don’t want to do it anymore, they said they’ll do it for a fee, em3afneeen nothing for free with them
I don’t think much has changed since I was gone or has it
What’s Up LONDON!
Posted by Bloggylife in UK, personal on December 17, 2009
YUP, insha’Allah I’ll be heading to London for a few days if everything goes smoothly tomorrow, I’ve been quiet busy with all my assignment and course work! Anyway I’m supposed to finalize my report today to hand in tomorrow and off I go on the 2 PM train, which I haven’t booked yet! Nor the hotel for that matter! Anyway, if it is meant to be, it is meant to be.
So for all of you who have been to London, RECOMMENDATIONS, and I’m a tube kinda-girl, if you are generous enough to provide directions, I do have a map but I’m not that good in reading those, and I don’t think London people are nice enough for me to ask them for directions! So I guess, I’ll just wander around and see where my feet take me
Automating: My Way
Posted by Bloggylife in personal on November 25, 2009
When I’m asked to do a task or solve a problem, I like to do two main things if I can, generalize the solution and automate the process.
When automating, it’s not about being lazy, but being efficient ;) It’s not complicated and I don’t invest much. If I have a program that outputs a file, I’d run another program to read the output and organize it the way I want, I don’t edit the main program. If I have to run this main program several times with different parameters. I’d generate first different parameters files, create a simple batch file with simple DOS commands, that pass the parameters when running the main program, then run my program that takes the necessary information that I want and then renames the output files.
I’d leave it to run overnight because it takes time, and if you are lucky, you won’t face stupid things, like Vista updates being installed and the computer automatically restarting killing your run! Thank GOD in my case, all my runs were done
Pushing the Limits
Posted by Bloggylife in personal on November 22, 2009
I’m trying to measure the limits of my daily routines. How much is enough?
- How many times a week I can have pasta before I die of having too much pasta
- How much of “public display of affection” I can take all the while fighting the temptation to notify the pair to get a room.
- How many people’s backsides I can see per day.
- How much more walking I can do without having the urge to tell someone to carry me home.
- Longest bus ride! Last time I almost vomited!! -la3at chabde raseee eftar-
- How much longer I can tolerate Vista before starting hunting down people responsible
Catch me if you can!
Posted by Bloggylife in personal on November 17, 2009
If I loose weight, it’s because the bus keeps driving away! Forcing me to walk all the way up to my dorm room!
Defasha Thoughts!
Posted by Bloggylife in personal, thoughts on November 16, 2009
I hurried to open the door to get to the prayer room, two of my colleagues were walking away.
“Hey, have you got the key, it’s locked, you need the key”
“I know, I’m just going to check if the prayer room is open, if not then I’ll head to the porter”
I open the door to the building and strangely I hear …
“Man, she opened the door!”
I go to the prayer room and it’s locked, I need to head to the porter for the key and there they are in front of me …
“How did you open the door!”
“Ahhh, it wasn’t locked, but I need the keys for the other room …. “
Then it hit me, DAMN, they couldn’t open this door, I thought they were talking about the other room! That’s why they waited I hope I didn’t use my shoulder to burst through the doors …
There goes my newly created mental list of “why I need a man” with a single one week old entry, that came when I couldn’t open my juice bottle and had to tear the edge off
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