PC all booted up and ready to go? Connected to the eternal net? Harddrives hacking and spinning around viciously after seven years of non-stop digital action? Then lets go.

1.) Get CCleaner @ ccleaner.com
It's free to download, the full version, and has been for years. This is a multifunctional and very reliable utility you really do need if you want to get your old busted up PC functioning perfectly again. Once you have it downloaded, be sure to install it to, setup should be a breeze.

2.) Get Lavasoft Adaware @ lavasoft.com
The free version is free, but if you can get your hands on the full version, it is reccomended. This program will get rid of any spyware you have hanging around polluting your digits. Install it and move on.

3.) Get Spyware Doctor @ pctools.com/spyware-doctor
It's all free, and a useful addition to the ^. Install and get going.

4.) Run a full scan with Lavasoft
Not much use if it's not put to use is it? Found me 470 ugly things. Quarantine everything it finds, and then get rid of the record.

5.) Scan the Registry for issues with CCleaner
Just click the button to scan, and the "fix all" when it's done. Not going through these manually might mess up some programs, but if you have over 3500 errors like I did the automatic option is definately the pick of choice.

6. ) Run a full scan with Spyware Doctor to get all the crap that Lavasoft missed
Run! The program may go a bit slow though, but it only slows down your PC when it's running. Found me about 90 more of the vicious spies.

7.) Get PerfectDisk @ perfectdisk.com
Not free, unfortunately. Not legally . . .

8.) Run CCleaner Cleaner on both all "Windows" and "Applications"
I had files worth of 4 585.7MB under Applications, and around under Windows. Good way to free some unused space. No worries, only temporary files and some other unused settings are removed.

9.) Get AVG Free @ free.avg.com
If you don't have a good Antivirus already. It's free and easy, install it and keep it running.

10.) Get ZoneAlarm @ zonealarm.com
No worries, the free version is free. The better version is reccomended though, of all the firewalls I've tried this is my favorite. It combines speed and security better than most others. Keep it running all the time you're online.

11.) Run a virus scan with your Antivirus
If you've had it on it'll probably have detected any malicious beings creeping onto your drives a long time ago, but a checkup doesn't hurt.

12.) Check Firewall access lists
Some programs that shouldn't be there might be there, and might be clogging up a good deal of bandwidth for you.

13.) Run PerfectDisk Defrag
Oooh, your PC will run like a charm after this, hopefully. All defrag does is reorganize the file structure, tidy it up a bit. You won't notice a thing though, everything that happens does so under our graphical interface borderlined. If you can't get your hands on this program, the built in Defragment tool will do just fine, though not as fine.

14.) Check Startup Programs in CCleaner
Most of the ones listed you can probably do without, so just delete all the ones you know you won't need. Be careful though, deleting system processes might mess up your system completely.

15.) Get rid of any unused Programs
This here is usually the real big source of spacewaste. Anything you don't use, won't use or shouldn't use. Get rid of it. Specially the big programs. Collective updates of for example JAVA also take up a great deal of space, and are not needed once the new versions come along. So if you have updates 1-11, get rid of the first ten (they take up about 150MB each). Lots of programs work this way, and there are probably a shitload of small applications you never use anymore stashed away you can save some space on.

16.) Get rid of any useless files
Tidy up, check folders you haven't checked before, get rid of early version of things you now have later versions of. Source files for things you don't need source files for, images you don't know why you downloaded in the first place, crappy music, bad video, all the stuff you don't need.

17.) Remove any Duplicates
Search Google for "Duplicate File Search" or "Duplicate Image Search" or any other filetype or format, a great deal of good programs will pop up. If you have large archives of files, finding duplicates manually is a pain in the ass, so let these goody programs do the task for you.

18.) Keep it going
Defrag at least once a month if you use your PC daily, conduct a spyware search regularly and clean up unused programs once in a while. It'll save up good speed. I'm no educated expert on this subject, but it works wonders for me. If all else fails, backup your important files and reinstall your OS. And whatever you do, don't get Vista, XP still has both the support and speed needed.

So, I bought two air guns/rifles, as displayed below. The rifle on Saturday, the Pistol this Monday. I went out shootin' (at recyclable cans) with a friend and fired the rifle maybe twenty-thirty times before a bolt just fell off, I brought it home, tried putting it back into place, no deal. So on Monday I went back and got a refund, and thus decided to buy a pistol instead. Maybe such a small and compact device would last longer, I thought, Nope. The grip just split in half whilst reloading after not even the same amount of firetimes as the rifle. I went back and got my money back. Moral of the story? Nah, I don't think I learned it, an even cheaper offer cought my eye and I'll be buying it next week. Just beware of the two below if to shops you go.

I watched a few movies: Disturbing Behavior (1998), My Bodyguard (1980), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Brotherhood of the Rose (1989), True Lies (1994), The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Fist of Fury (1972), This Boy's Life (1993), Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection (1990) , What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Queer as Folk (2000), Police Academy (1984), Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985), Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986), Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987), Police Academy 5: Assignment: Miami Beach (1988), Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989), Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow (1994), Big Trouble In Little China (1986), The Beatles - Yellow Submarine (1968), The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (1964), The Beatles - Help! The Movie (1965), Forrest Gump (1994), S.F.W. (1994), The Lookout (2007), The Rock (1996), The Terminators (2009), Dead Alive (1992), Gummo (1997), Outbreak (1995), Target (1985), Deep Rising (1998), The Warriors (1979), The Ghost And The Darkness (1996), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), Blankman (1994), Posse (1993), Lost In Space (1998), Logan's Run (1976), Bravo Two Zero (1999), Joy Ride (2001), Black Cadillac (2003), 5ive Girls (2006), Puff, Puff, Pass (2006), Crazy as Hell (2002) . . . and them some. I think I should go outside for a while now. :/

Just chill, it will not reach civilization, it will stand still. Upon the nations that manifest themselves, sink lower for every life. It's already in Canada, the US, it's been there a long time already, it hasn't killed anyone. Where treatment lacks greeting the fleet of defeating, set sail. I think this existence will prevail.

Listen to a few of my musical mixes with this new spiffy jukebox (open it up in a new window) I threw together over on CyberDB yesterday. A link will be up in the menu over there sometime soon, and you can listen to all my tracks (sound-only-versions) in the archives. Plenty of loops there, and they are all free to use if you need some for a movie/little flash game/etc. It's all the stuff I previously had here at NG, and maybe a few more that I never submitted. The singular 0-Z tracks to categorize my submissions are not up there, nor are the recited poems I made this year, in total there are 666 archived tracks I made in the past eight years. Hope it's enjoyed, any feedback, let me know.

Nah, I didn't solve it, but I came to realization today. To insight. The revolutional selfdescovary of this boxes truant truth. I'd like to take the credit for this myself, but it was only when I had searched Google for the keywords "Solve the Rubiks cube" that the reality popped into my mind. The cube is built upon one center axis, thus the center square on each side is immovable, it will always stay the same color. The squares on each side of this square have two sides, and thus two colors that will always be connected to each other. The corner squares all have three colors, all of them connected to each other as well. In the guide the author wrote that the most common problem was solving only one of the six sides at a time, a strategy that will lead nowhere, and I can see why now. I've always spun the cube around at random whilst trying to complete the pattern earlier, but now it suddenly looks more like a solvable puzzle than even before, and regular puzzles I am good at solving, too.

There are probably thousands of guides on how to solve the cube step by step, from any randomly generated combination of squares (which is numbered by over the gazillion), but I didn't have the patience to read through any of them. Hope I'll have the patience to try out my newfound knowledge someday, maybe. If you don't know about this genuine invention, Google it and gain wisdom, adjö.

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There was a time
When I had the same amount of saves
As I did blams
When I had the same amount of blams
As I did EXP
When I had the same amount of EXP
As I did forum posts
And I had the same amount of blogs
As I did music

There was a time
When I had the same amount of time
As any other odd, creative, NG relative
When I had the same length on my days
As any other BBS regular, blogger, BP native
When I had the same amount of free days in my week
I could spam, I could chat, I could submit, I could speak
Now it seems my sane amount of time has a leak
Just dripping, tripping, deranged

So I delay the refrain
Stay in lanes that are sane
Foreign to names
Slain like the slopes

Of strangers portrain
Contained by the game
Training with great strain
Refreign from all ease

And lace pain together
Like rain cages weather
Grimmer trims of denial
Since the pirate trial

Poetic Scribbles by I

35 levels above ground zero, woohoo, just in time for Pico Day too! :D Of course I'll be submitting this years version of my Pico Flash soon, as the tradition ensues, though I havn't hadn't nearly as much time as I had liked to work on it, may wait a few days and try to spiff it up a bit furtherly. Anyhow, love the new layout, enjoy the day!

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