Sep 05
Strange Machines
What are we, but strange machines, living this extraordinary life
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About
Mephala is a strange and rather interesting human fascinated by handmade stuffed dolls, eloquent speculative poetry, mythical space leviathans, and long calcified dinosaurs. She regularly fantasizes about floating above Jupiter watching the Great Red Spot spit out its eggs. This blog chronicles her adventures on that thrilling roller coaster ride of life, parenting five precocious cats and 1 human baby.
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- Is my Nokia N82 Toxic?I just had to know. My hand was burning after 30 minutes of surfing and this is pretty common. So I surfed over to Nokia to check. According to a 2002 Nokia Environmental Report (PDF), a phone is made out of 20% ABS-PC and 4% PC. PC = BPA and BPA messes you up bad, even [...]
- WoW - the FixAfter persisting another day, I eliminated the final possibility. I read this forum post about the Hostage of Comodo Firewall Pro and knew this must be it! Firewall conflict - that’s what the nice Blizzard lady Leah wrote and told me. So here’s what I did. In Vista (yes, still using that confounded thing), under Services, [...]
- WoW WoesIt is now day 2 and I have solved the “Tracker not responding” problem. Turns out WoW doesn’t like Comodo Firewall such that even turning it off doesn’t work. When I finally threw in the towel and uninstalled it, the Launcher worked and downloaded the latest patch. Now when I restarted it, the News page refused [...]
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