Well, that was some weekend. I meant to update somewhere in the middle there, but I ended up getting caught up in fixing up Chris's computer instead. I'm sure he appreciates the fact he can see grays now and that there aren't several spyware infestations bogging everything down and making IE unusable. (Yeah, I wouldn't care about that either, except that it's both part of the OS and the only way to run Windows Update.)

Naturally, sometime around 3:06pm on Monday (so, only a little over 11 hours before I am writing this), there must have been a power outage or something, because when I got back, everything had been rebooted. I also lost my IP, since this POS Linksys router is incapable of fixing itself in a timely fashion (I'm usually around to do it manually). I've put in the required changes on DreamHost's DNS servers, but it'll be a few days before the changes propogate, as usual. This only really means that the webcam won't be viewable for a couple of days. You didn't miss anything anyways, since the power outage or whatever took that down too.

In any case, I'm going to toy with HDLoader some more and see if I can get it working, because I actually ran out and paid up $120 for a Seagate HDD (and $40 for the PS2 Network Adapter since I didn't already have one), and I really don't want that to be money wasted. It worked ONCE at Chris's house, then never again, so I need to figure out if there's some way I can make it work consistently. Otherwise, I'm going to end up testing out Best Buy's policies on exchanging hard drives.

I'll write about what happened about the weekend later. I'll probably do that before I sleep, since if I don't I'll likely never get around to it.