If you’ve got a Gateway, and malware *due to your pr0n surfing* has gotten you to the point where you don’t care whether you can save anything, and you’d rather just restore it to factory settings, go ahead and run Gateway eRecovery.

If you do NOT have Gateway eRecovery installed, hit and hold F8 to get to Advanced Boot Tools to Boot your PC in Safe Mode WITHOUT Networking. Save your important files, and then reboot again. This time use ALT + F10 to get your recovery options.

If you’ve got a bootleg version of Windows Vista (God Forbid) or Windows 7, go ahead and pop that bootleg disk in and click “Install Now” to install a clean version of Windows. It’ll save your old files in a windows.old directory for you to access and/or delete later. SCORE.

I’ll write some Malware Quick Tips soon…

w00t w00t!

I finally convinced my mother to cancel her AOL Dial-Up account. It has been a tug-o-war since 2000.

You see, by the time I had graduated from high school and been accepted to USC (Go Trojans!) under early admittance, I had already hacked into several small networks using AOL Dial-Up. “Security” wasn’t an issue back then. No one had a strong “secure” schema for “security”. *shrug*

So when I arrived at USC (Go Trojans!), and I was able to tap into a T1… I thought I was the hot heifer on the skreet (not “street”). And AOL Dial-Up was a red headed step-bastard…in other words, NOT POSSIBLE – NOT AN OPTION (N.O.).

I was bougie now. AOL Dial-Up? Psht. Pligga Neez.

However, it was good enough for her. She had a good government secure high-speed network on base everyday. She wasn’t concerned about having it at home too. If SHE was happy. I was happy. I mean, I didn’t go home as often anymore…but she was happy.

Fast forward to 2010…

Mom wants a new laptop.

The bargain: I’ll give you ONE OF THESE *holding up one of my 1 year old Gateway Laptops* … the day you cancel AOL Dial-Up.

My life hasn’t been the same since.

After countless text messages and email messages, it became MY job to power cycle through AOL’s chain of 800 #s to hit their India based cancellation crew.

If I had received one more “Did you call yet?” text message, I was going to plan an attack on AOL over a V.92 56k bit rate modem.

I mean, how did it become MY job to cancel something I been telling her to cancel for YEARS because SHE wants one of MY laptops? I’d been #swindled.

What took 14+ years to deal with, took 5 minutes to diminish.

Interesting how shed been paying $34.99 per month for 14 years and it took our calling in for them to offer her a “New Great Rate” of $4.99 per month.

*middle finger to AOL*

Dear AOL, I hate your face.

Kick Rocks Barefoot, Courtney

Textarea Cache for Firefox is a lifesaver.

This extension will save automatically the content in the textarea or WYSIWYG editor when user is typing. The user can recover the saved text in the cache window, even if the tab or the window is closed unexpectedly.

The user will see an icon in the status bar when the text is saved in the cache.
Clicking the icon will open the cache window.

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I guess the iPad is supposed to change our lives or something.
Blendtec wondered if it could change the way we blend…

I just like the way it’s blended to little pieces and dust.
I know. I’m a hater.
I’ll take it. Whatever.
*shrug*

*no…fa real*

I think I’m still on page 1 of Google for “Courtney”.

I had a minute of slippage when I took on a new strategy, but I think I figured out what the issue was.

And now that that’s fixed…

Bring on the good SEO changes!

Google Me!

Formspring Question:

what possessed you to sign up for this thing?!

Answer:

As a Social Media Consultant, I think it’s my job to find out about the latest and greatest social media apps, websites, and API links. But I actually put my link out there because I was curious to know what people would ask.

After deleting a few questions…
I don’t think I’m curious anymore. lol.

With Formspring.me, you can send and receive anonymous questions, and learn more about people you find interesting by following their answers. Not only that, but you can connect to both Facebook and Twitter APIs to share your responses to the questions that were asked! This not only notifies the person that you responded, but also lets others know that you’re:

1. Answering anonymously submitted questions
2. Alerts those that may have had the same question to the answer of that question…
3. Incites others to ask more questions

Definitely a great tool to have in your Social Media toolbox.

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Windows 7 Ultimate - Reinstall

Cause my PC was on that BULLSkee this week.

On Tuesday, it decided to FAIL when I uninstalled iTunes.

I had to uninstall iTunes because it wasn’t sending my Nike+ iPod information to NikePlus.com.

#FAIL

Anyways, Wednesday rolled around and then my laptop decided to not boot up AT ALL. *eye roll*

So I spent a good majority of Wednesday trying to re-load Windows 7.

However, this time, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate. And THIS time, I actually hacked it to disable the Activation Check.
Luckily, I was able to backup all of my files while it was doing what it was doing, and I spent a few hours deleting the stuff in windows.old/ directory because not all of it had the Courtney Elizabeth permissions. *Damn you, TrustedInstaller*…

But … all seems to be better…

Now…lemme go find some wood to knock on.

x0x0, Boon

Welp.
I’m doing it…
I’m installing Windows 7.
I know I said I wouldn’t…but…
Ech. I spent 6 hours downloading the torrent. Lol.
And backups work…so…why not.
Glutton for punishment. Much.

Ill let you know how it goes.
xoxo.

Blackberry Storm 2 … FTW!

Verizon released it yesterday. And mine arrived today..FedEx Overnight… w00t w00t!

I think I stared at it for a good 30 minutes…
I didnt want to take it out of the box…

*hangs head*

But I finally got over the plastic shock…and opened it and powered it up…

It’s great so far…

I’m in the process of moving all of my apps over…

And settings…

I will say that I think I still like the latest Storm1 OS…5.0.0.328…

I’ll keep you posted…

Once again…I’ve been slacking on updating the personal blog. But I’m still alive. <3

I have very little idle time from work…
but when I do…
I develop blackberry themes.
Its a new hobby…sort of like designing munnys and dunnys from kidrobot.com.

You can check them out at xoxoboon.com.
Kind of like…gifts from me, “boon”, to you…

Miss u guys…