The story so far

A week into the new year, I think I've done well so far with my new year's theme:

1. Wednesday finished all 8 Sunday comics that I promised Theresa the week before (had to completely forgo sleep to achieve this)
2. Thursday submitted the bihun sup story to Sam
3. And today finished doing the reformasi on my brother's PC and putting together a wireless home network

In fact, I'm typing this very post on the new home network. It's an Apple Airport Express network that for now serves two computers: one is the brother's PC which uses a USB Wi-Fi adapter and the other is my sister's iBook which already has an Airport card in it.

So now any time anyone brings a computer with Wi-Fi in it, he or she will have ready access to our Streamyx. Slick!

I should've done this earlier but I was dragging my feet with the home network project. Mainly becos I hated the fact that my brother's PC is a Windows PC.

A few years ago, he did something online with the PC which rendered it unusable.

I was the unofficial home computer administrator so he turned to me for help. But I was getting sick of having to undo another person's stupid mistakes so we left the PC at that.

People should be made to obtain a license to use a PC. There are just too many owners who are only interested in using a PC but not maintain it.

But now that the brother has grown up a little and has promised to learn to care for the PC, I agreed to the project.

Still, it wasn't an easy thing to do. Some of the components were no longer working so I had to replace them. And then there were those tons of updates to the OS. Driver reinstallations. Cryptic warning messages. Wires everywhere.

Things you don't have to deal with if you used a Mac. But I guess you need to allow yourself to do things that you hate doing once in a while. Great for character building.