technology is bliss

uploading some pics again, and the internet speed is still slow. but it has improved, but still, slooowww. anyway, while uploading, and downloading some music videos, might as well blog...

I finally bought the USB hub/card reader that i wanted to buy a few weeks ago. i saw it in a Gilmore shop when i bought the 250 gig hard disk i needed (Gilmore...a place i go to for all my computer needs!). i didnt buy it back then because i didnt have the extra money for it. It was a good decision actually, it was P50 cheaper now, dont know the reason for the price drop, in less than a month. the product seems to be ok, doesnt look like the very cheap ones.

anyway, i really feel good when i buy a gadget or some other similar stuff, no matter how simple it is. i dont know, i just like computer related things, i guess. it really gets me excited. after i bought the hard disk, i was pumped up in installing and re-formatting it (because the guy at the computer shop used NTFS, i use and prefer FAT32). ok, maybe not pumped up, but i really liked doing it. i spent hours re-installing my usual software. now, just buying a USB hub and card reader makes feel less miserable than usual (i bought it because i upgraded my motherboard back in 2003, and well, the USB ports are located at the back of the CPU case and doesnt have any USB port in front, and flash drives werent that common at the time, so its really inconvenient to have the USB ports at the back of the CPU, and it only has 2 ports). it really was a relief for me to have the USB port in a convenient and easily accesible place. as for the card reader, it makes transferring pictures from the digital cameras more convenient too. now, i dont have to plug the digicam to the PC and go through the installed programs of the digicam. the programs are useful but they get burdensome especially when you transfer pictures on a weekly basis, or almost weekly basis.

since im talking of feeling good when it comes to gadgets, i remember my cousin telling me that there was this one time that i really looked happy. it was sort of a rare moment since im always feeling miserable. and that time was when i helped set up my cousin's PC! of course i knew she could do it on her own, but im really thankful she allowed me to do it, because i really felt good doing it (installing the OS, MS office, the soundcard drivers, etc).