Minimal
stressed for motivation and achievement2003-09-29
Painful eXPerience
Finally upgraded to Windows XP last week. For a full two days, I was absolutely loving it. Not only was I rid of the house of cards that was Windows Me, but XP was finally showing me real benefit to storing things in the folders it suggested. Everything was going absolutely swimmingly... and then I installed Service Pack 1.
As much as I feel the need to stick up for Microsoft when they’re getting things right (and getting no praise for it), they can still let you down. Badly. My installation of XP was as fresh as a daisy, so you would expect the patching process to be as smooth as... a very smooth thing. But no, it killed my PC instead. I can’t even boot in the most basic Safe Mode available. Not only that, but the blue-screen advice it offers disappears in an instant as my machine resets itself. I have no idea what it’s trying to tell me. Somebody up there’s telling me to get a Mac...
Incidentally, it may interest you to know that XP was the first step on my plan towards a better website. The following steps involved: installing and learning Apache, PHP, & MySQL; getting a new hosting provider; redesigning the site (visually and structurally); transferring of old content to the new setup; and... wait for it... adding comments. Oh, and RSS feeds, too. Even the longest journey starts with a single step — it’s just that this step seems to be quite a difficult one to make.
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