Sorry, haven’t had much time for the blog lately. Had to fix the MBR in my netbook (eee 1000HE XP) and booting the windows installation CD ended up with that infuriating error message where all stops before the choice for Recovery Console showed up… This after a month of trying to borrow an external CD player as to not have to buy one, finally buying one, booting the installation CD and…. (need a mad red smiley here, in fact this blog needs smilies!) I had stuck EasyPeasy 1 in it, which worked fine, but upgrading to 1.5 just caused too many issues. Bummer, guess I just don’t have the patience right now. Out it went!
If this ever happen to you check out MbrFix.exe. Saved the day! And in the end the CD player made it easier to install Photoshop on that machine, a good thing since I haven’t been able to use the antique Epson 3000 (A2) printer that’s in my studio since my old laptop grinded to a halt last summer. Now I need to see if that still works… (Updated to add the picture; as you can see, it did!)
Amazingly enough it cost me all of $50 five years ago, used on the web, and I was able to find special archival inks for it too which when they run out, probably soon, will probably be a big problem! So far it has worked great for my special needs, mostly printing black ink on the thin handmade papers that I use for collages. I’ve have a couple of ideas that have been waiting, wait too long and they disappear….
I’ve also started a new How To Play The Washboard page, although this could be a bit pretentious on my part since my playing skills are pretty average. Still you don’t have to be that great to help beginners and it’s a bit of a challenge too. We’ll see…
And speaking of washboards:
