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Think I won't cap True Blood anymore; I still enjoy it but the urge to cap it isn't as strong as it used be...

I'm so happy, fan-sites.org will also be hosting my Xena and Stargate sites :D They even bought a domain on my behalf for the stargate one: stargate-caps.net Of course, this means a lot of weeding of out the bad caps and reuploading but I don't really mind! I'm just so happy not to loose these two sites :D

I've reuploaded the bluray caps from Star Trek 2 - The Wrath Of Khan: http://www.megaupload.com/?f=MJ7BBCP1

The usual rules apply, and if you want to see samples caps, you can find the original post in the tags.

True Blood 2x04 Shake And Fingerpop caps are up; no thumbs this time but they're like my other True Blood caps.

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According to GateWorld's article, SGA may not be coming to Bluray! :<

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2009/07/mgm-no-blu-ray-seasons-for-stargate-atlantis/

Everything else seems to be coming on Bluray, why not SGA? It was shot in HD so it's not a matter of costly re-mastering like with ie. Star Trek TOS. Bluray is the way of the future, and if they're not releasing it, well that's just stupid...

Guess I might as well start seriously entertain the thought to recap the whole series now with my current standards though... had been holding off because I wanted to cap the Blurays when they're out...

I was bored yesterday 'cause I had to do a lot of reinstalling of programs and couldn't do anything fun or productive like capping on the computer because of it... so I watched the handful of season 5 episodes of Stargate Atlantis I chose not to watch when the season aired. Most of them were pretty much as I expected, more or less bad and/or boring for whatever reasons.

But one episode I now really wish I had watched and capped then - namely Prodigal. It's not that it's particularly good, but it's 1)Teyla episode 2)apparently a resolution to the Michael story line and 3)had some very pretty shots that begged capping. I considered getting the HDTV version of it back then, but couldn't overcome my complete apathy towards the series at the time. Oh well, maybe it'll show up in a round of reposts or something.

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Okay, finished reinstalling Vista about two hours ago, and looks like it did solve all the annoying things in my last post :)

Reinstalling from scratch on this laptop is never fun because for some reason the install discs/procedure is insanely slow - the install program takes over 3 hours just to get the computer ready so one can start using it, and I think that's weird because Windows XP took an hour in my old desktop, a stand-alone version of Vista took less than 1,5 hours oin this one when I tested, and my Mom's Windows Vista laptop did it about the same time when I readied it for her. But I've done this so often I've got it down to a routine - the first year after I bought this, I must've reinstalled like 6 times partly because of stupid Vista behaviour and partly because the BIOS version this shipped with was crap. Luckily, a couple of BIOS updates fixed whatever it was that causing the heating up and other bad behavior and now mostly on Vista issues are left. But if I could afford to get a new computer, I'd happily buy one right now and stay away from HP Pavilions and maybe other HP laptops  too... although I'm not sure how much of the initial problems were solely because of Vista, or solely the laptop or just an unhappy marriage of the two. This computer reminds me so much of my very first one - because of all the issues it's taunted me with in the 3 years since I bought it... the first one was a IBM machine with Windows 95 and I grew to hate it. But I got Windows 98 that I realized it had been Windows 95 more than the IBM machive to blame.

Anyway.

I didn't loose anything this time: was able to back everything needed to a network drive when the DVD-rom refused to work. Now is left reinstalling programs that are necessary but not important security or internet-use wise wise like Photoshop, Word and all the codec/screencapping things. Annoying... but on the other hand, I now have a cleaner computer than I've had in almost 1,5 years I think - all the left over crap from programs I've tried and then uninstalled are now gone so I guess that's a plus...

EDIT: I just realized - I'm sure I bought this computer 3 years ago in the summer, which would make the year 2006. Except that I'm sure the year I bought it was 2007. Huh. Unless - there's been so much trouble with it that it feels I've had it sooo much longer?... too lazy to check.

Installed a new BIOS version yesterday after HP support recommended it, after having some issues all of a sudden like the dvd tray opening by itself intermittedly, and the laptop just freezing. And now the stupid Windows Vista complains about "unauthorized software change" or something like that, and claims my Vista isn't genuine and imgburn complaines something about "maximum number of secrets that can be stored on a single station has been exceeded" everytime I try to burn  a disc. Sometimes it burns after that, other times just offers retry and cancel with further error notice.

EDIT: now the dvd-rom isn't regocnized :<

System restore, like usual, does squat.

So I'm propably going to have to reformat and install Vista from scratch... :(

Bluray caps from Star Trek - The Motion Picture are up again.

Dreamwidth - http://ariane.dreamwidth.org/109106.html
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Bluray caps from Underworld - Rise Of The Lycans are up again. Because I didn't like this movie as much as the first two, I don't promise to reupload again if they get deleted - it'll depend on my mood and how much other uploads I have. Also, if you want to mirror these, by all means - just let me know so I can point people in your direction and credit you.

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First day in two weeks I could breath normally... yay! :D According to weather casts, the weather until mid next week, will be the much more normal 17-20C instead of bloody 30C :D

In other news, Robin Hood has been cancelled. I'm relieved.

Lost 1x01 Pilot, Part 1 Bluray caps. This one comes in 5 rars; 3 are already up and the last two should finish later today.

Files: Lost Bluray caps

Had to make a few simple icons of a certain someone from 3x13 - if you haven't seen the episode and don't know guest stars, spoilers ahead!

Caps: mine

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I've got 877 761 entries in memories *freaks* Deleted my own stuff from memories - I started to use tags about 2 years ago, so most of it was incomplete and outdated anyway now.

Considering majority of them are more than 2 years old, never looked at since; I'm pretty sure a very large percentage of them is by now either deleted/friendlocked. I really should make myself go through them... it's insane that's there no kind of link on the memories page to delete them - I always have to go find it in the FAQ pages :<

True Blood 2x03 Scratches caps.

It's been lousy weather for exactly a week now - unusually hot, sunny and way too bright even those rare times when it's cloudy. And weather casts say its going to continue like this at least all through next Friday :( Statistically, we only something have 10-15 peak days (when it goes from warm to hot) a year, and these are almost used up by now and it's only June!

And yes, the above is my definition of "lousy", I don't care what people in the grocery store insist on telling me when they refuse to believe that I really don't like the sun and warmth.

So I'm going to put off everything that doesn't need to taking care of immediately, and do things like uploads only if I feel like it. Heat has a negative effect on me, and just makes me not want to do things that take any effort. My plan is to read and surf the net, and maybe try & get something written on one of my fics - IF I can even decided which one I should work on!

( Some further complaining and thoughts about past & future weather pattern here )

BBC HD is airing the series 3 finale tomorrow instead of today, so caps will be delayed for two or three days...

EDIT: just finished watching the series 3 finale, some thoughts behind the cut - beware spoilers!

( Spoilers behind the cut )

This got a little long, so it's going under a cut...

( Until this current wank, I've always been totally against warnings. )