sugarloaf ♥ express

Dear friendslist,

If you haven't already, do backup your LJ!
Well, in truth, I only read that FAQ link, skipped it, & searched for other methods instead *lol*

I stumbled upon very helpful tutorials and found a couple of nifty tools for backing up LJ.

The great tutorials:
1. Backing up your LJ: a guide for Windows users (thank you brown_betty)
2. How to Back-Up Your LJ (thank you liz_marcs)

The best backup tools:
1. ljArchive (see ljarchive for updates)
2. LJ Backup (see ljbackup_dev for updates)
3. LJ-Sec (see ljsec for updates)
4. LJ Migrate (check out the tutorial)

I only use the first three, because the 4th one uses Python and I'm too lazy to learn it :P
From the three above, my favorite is ljArchive. It lets you archive communities as well (provided you have posting access). How nifty! Oh, and let's not forget the sync ability! I just love it! ♥♥♥

This whole backup awareness all started because of the oh so many computer mishaps in the last two months, and I've become very aware of backing up my online & offline data as a result.

Well, hello!

I've been staying in Medistra hospital since the evening of Feb 22nd, so this is the fourth day.

Quick surgery report:
Mom's kidney stone major surgery on Feb 23rd went well. She spent about 3 hours inside the surgery & recovery room, so I think the surgery itself took about 2 - 2.5 hours. After that, she was moved to the ICU for monitoring, spent a night there, and moved back to room #501 at 9am on the following day. Her condition is good, only the part around the incised wound area hurts very much, so she can't mobilize a lot & must stay intact for the post-incised wound to recover asap.
With that being said, I think she will be dismissed no sooner than Sunday.

I've been inside the hospital (and never once taken a step out) since I came in on Feb 22, and I must say that by now I'm really very bored!
I did bring my 1TB harddisk external full of dorama, movies, and other videos, but I haven't got the urge to see them. All I wanna do is go back home and sleep on my comfortable bed. After all, nothing is better than being home! I miss home already ;_;

Although I have 24/7 connection to the internet via my Blackberry, for some unknown reasons my Bold keeps going on SOS mode every so often, especially inside room #501. It's really weird! The BIS connection goes up and down a lot, too. So I can't really get online much.

Actually there's wifi connection on the 5th, 7th, and 8th floor, but the signal in this room is really very bad (like only 1 bar or 2 at most!). It gets better if I go outside the room. So everytime I want to get online, I must bring my (dad's, actually) laptop out to the nurse station/5th floor reception area until my laptop battery runs out. Too bad there's no lounge on 5th floor. I'm too lazy to go to 7th or 8th floor lounge area, so I usually just sit at the corner of the nurse station, borrowing a chair from the nurses :P

This evening will be the first time I set my feet out from the hospital, to attend Ash Wednesday mass at St. Theresia at 6pm. A breathe of fresh air, finally!

Finally.. my computer is almost as good as new *beams*
Although I spent quite a lot of money for the new 1gb memory, fan, power supply, and casing, but hey.. at least the motherboard isn't broken. Thankfully.
But imagine 1.5 weeks without my lovely desktop... O_O

Oh, I finally subscribed to the only cable modem provider in my area (yeees, my area is not in the heart of Jakarta. It's actually way down there in the southern suburb, where the threat of flood is the lowest in Jakarta). I couldn't take it anymore... for the past 2 months, the dial-up @ telkomnet was insanely slow. So... after 4 years of amazingly shocking patience (since I've been known to be an impatient lady), here's a toast to the once again unlimited browsing and leeching! YAY! :D

Don't ask me about the speed, though. It's waaaaayy below what I had experienced in State College, PA, 6-7 years ago. Actually the advertised speed is "up to 256 kbps". Now you go figure... With the unstable network and all that, how much do I get in the far end?
No no, I'm not complaining. It's good enough that now I have unlimited internet after waiting for oh so many years. So for those of you lucky souls who can experience 10+ mbps cable internet, be thankful for what you have. For here lies the truth.. the internet in Indonesia sucks so baaadd. Actually, *whispers* it's being monopolized big time, so no wonder, right?

I am sincerely awaiting for the time... when I can move closer to the heart of Jakarta, where access to everything is so much easier.