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I'm thinking again of moving off of livejournal and onto something on my own servers. I've been playing with Movable Type. and it's pretty nice. We'll see what I decide.

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productive day today. I've contacted a credit counselor to try and get them to help me reduce my $4797.59 in credit card debt. Also, I contacted another auto insurance company to see if they can beat the quote I got from progressive.com. State farm went up on me from around $150ish a month to $350ish a month. Progressive quoted me $179 a month after the front end deposit. Oh, and I did do a little actual work related stuff today too. :)

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Dell...it seems like deja vu all over again. tonite I wanted to use a floppy disk. Not a common need, but you expect your floppy drive to work when you need it. Well...my floppy drive isn't working right now. I suspected my disk at first, but after 3 I decided to reboot I got "Diskette 0 Seek Failure". Now I had confirmed the drive is bad, so I hop over to the premier access support page on Dell's site that I use for work. I can request next day onsite support for my laptop, and have done it in the past. Everything seemed normal except that my laptop apparently has no support associated with it. It also STILL shows up as an Inspiron 8000 instead of the 8100 Dell gave me as a replacement. I have repeatedly asked my school's Dell rep to look into that issue and he always says he will. I have paid for a 3 year onsite freaking warranty, and I KNOW that I have used it since I got my replacement system. Now I need to use that warranty and it's GONE. This makes me so pissed off again. So much for playing with some DOS networking stuff like I wanted to. Now I have to e-mail Dell again and deal with all this crap I thought I was done with. grr...