Alas poor weekend, I knew him, Horatio…
Weekend is over. All over. No more weekend. I spent the whole damn thing fixing my machine 
On the up side it’s now completely back up to scratch (except for a postgresql install which I only remembered this morning). I would have had a partition image made and burned by now too if ntfs wasn’t such a royal pain in the arse. I’m now working on resizing my winblows partition so I can create a couple of extras for dumping my images on (I can only mount ntfs readonly from the rescuecd – the captive ntfs filesystem doesn’t work >:()
Started the personal power cds this morning – they’re pretty interesting. I’m quite excited about doing the program so I’m looking forward to the next one – done half of my assignment already, the rest (finally doing the damn dishes!) will get done this evening. With luck I’ll end up with a few moments to myself this evening to play Kotor again – I’m very much enjoying it 
Great storyline – good enough to distract me from the fact that I’m playing a party based game, although I must say the system is very good. There are a number of little features in the game such as the “Rapid Transit System” that make it a lot more playable than many similar games. The RTS for instance lets you “Return to Hideout” whenever you’re out and about, and from the hideout you can “Transit Back” which will take you straight back to the place you “Returned” from. Makes it a lot more tolerable than having to walk some ponderous distance every time you need to report back to base.
Same thing goes for party selection – whenever you’re out and about you can just change your party selection and the relevant people appear/disappear – obviously the game skips the bit where you’d go back and get them or whatever, and for me that makes it much more enjoyable. On top of all that the inventory is shared – no matter who picks something up anyone can equip it, which makes soooo much more sense! And there’s a veritable shiteload of the game left to play! Happiness… well, true happiness would entail me getting another gig of ram and a brand new video card to play Thief III, but beggars can’t be choosers….
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What is a "personal power cd" ?[Reply]
Personal Power is a set of CDs by a guy named Anthony Robbins – it’s all about human behaviour and the way we make neuro-associations with pleasure and pain. The whole point is to teach you to really be able to control and rebuild those associations so you can change your subconscious responses to things – IE stop procrastinating about certain things or avoiding others. It’s pretty interesting stuff.[Reply]