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This morning the blog wouldn't allow me to sign in. I tried to clean up the computer a little yesterday -- try to make things a little faster by getting rid of a lot of what I thought was useless stuff -- and apparently went too far, thus blocking access to the blog sign-in.
So I had to retrace my steps -- go to "system restore," something that would take me back to a point where I had started to clean up the crap ... and take all the crap back. That worked and now I can sign in.
But I'm back in the same old crap.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.
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This is what I do:
ReplyDelete1/ Windows Explorer - Go to c:/TEMP and c:/WINDOWS/TEMP and delete whatever I can from that (sometimes you have to do a few at a time)
2/ Delete stuff from Recycle bin
Then there are these system tool things:
3/ In Explorer click on C: drive then RIGHT CLICK
Go to properties, on first tab
can try DISK CLEANUP
-- then Tools tab
You can try those funny things like Defrag, System Checkup (this is often when you restart again as comp can't be touched when it's working)
I don't know enough about computers to try other stuff but this is my usual MO when computers start behaving weirdly.
Also just see what programs and files you may not be using anymore and if unncessary, you could try manually deleting them (for files) or going to (CONTROL PANEL > Add or Remove Programs) for the files.
Thanks Anon. Like you, I know some stuff ... but just enough to find out how much I don't know. Which is not to say I don't appreciate your effort. I do.
ReplyDeleteI'm another Anon FYI gen, best wishes.
ReplyDeleteThose muffins you sounded delicious by the way, I love nuts me'self. Cheers.
Yes, no way out of it.
ReplyDeleteHi Another Anon -- Downside on the muffins was that they have a short shelf life ... get hard-ish in about a day. This can be overcome, I've found, by putting them in the microwave for 30 seconds or so ... still tasty.
ReplyDeletela merde se produit :)
ReplyDeleteScheiße geschieht
ReplyDeletethats meant to read shit happens...ooops hope its close
ReplyDeleteMy French and German have been greatly improved. Thanks. :)
ReplyDeletePali and sanskrit to follow,at no extra cost :)
ReplyDeleteI had hot blueberry muffins at work,delicious.
Blueberry muffins are more delicious than human crap...
ReplyDeleteAnonymous -- Are you telling us you eat shit? :p
ReplyDeleteHow does anyone really know what crap tastes like? maybe it not so bad.
ReplyDeleteI have heard about people eating fecal matter or drinking urine, but I wouldn't recommend it for anyone who isn't used to it. Dogs love to eat human feces, but they have a different microbial environment in their digestive track.
ReplyDeleteOn our farm, it goes through a three year recycling process before it becomes food again. Besides mulches and compost heaps, the compost toilet has been most useful in turning our barren land into fertile soil that is teeming with life and that has allowed me to grow most of our food naturally without any fertilizers or other chemicals.
Fecal matter is the most precious organic substance that humans are capable of producing. It serves as food for a multitude of beings before the remains of these beings are taken up again by plant nutrition and serve as food for humans. Only life can generate life. In our lifetime, we have witnessed an unprecedented destruction of the living substance and its replacement by dead chemicals. The inferior nutritional value of industrially produced food plays an important role in the increase of chronic diseases common to most industrialized countries.
Bon appétit,
Dieter
Hi Dieter -- As a non-farmer, I have always been amazed from a distance that fecal matter should be used in (I think) rice paddies and fields in the orient, but is kept at bay, as far as I know, here in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteAcross the dike near where I live, I can always tell it's spring when the smell of horse and cow shit wafts in from the fields there. Wonderful perfume ... though I never have smelled any pig shit, which, in my experience, smells most like human waste.
There's something to be said, outside the drug culture, for the expression, "good shit!"
I heard a story the other day about a dude who flew to Africa in order to stomp around latrines barefooted. He suffered greatly from allergies, and desperate for a cure, his research showed that third world populations didn't suffer much from allergies, asthma, and some other aliments that are commonly found in developed countries. It's claimed that our immune systems are accustomed to (evolved with) a healthy balance of parasitic organisms.
ReplyDeleteHookworms enter the body through the skin and are found in merde. Pardon my french.
Shel -- So, did stomping around latrines barefoot alleviate his allergies?
ReplyDeleteYes. Looked it up and here's one link if interested:
ReplyDeletehttp://topics.npr.org/article/0fI8dKD5mB83U
Thanks Shel. It might be interesting to hear someone discuss the trade-offs between asthma/allegies and hookworm benefits. Here, for example, is an excerpt from Wikipedia (yes, I'm as lazy as the next fellow) on hookworms:
ReplyDelete"Hookworm is a leading cause of maternal and child morbidity in the developing countries of the tropics and subtropics. In susceptible children hookworms cause intellectual, cognitive and growth retardation, intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, and low birth weight among newborns born to infected mothers. Hookworm infection is rarely fatal, but anemia can be significant in the heavily infected individual."
I suppose that too much of anything, even hookworm and shit, can be a bad thing.
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