HBKerr

Hi my name is Chris, I'm HBKerr's middle son (the PC whizz).

My mum passed away on Monday night, aged 54, with what I've just been informed was a form of heart disease. It happened suddenly, with no forewarning whatsover. We're all in complete shock as you can imagine.

Considering how much she enjoyed this site and all her friends on here, I thought it would be a nice gesture to leave a message for the people who gave her so much happiness and joy in what was an imperfect life.

I'll be keeping the account open for as long as DeviantArt allows, it's great to see she had a community here.

I'd like to say more about her, and perhaps will after the funeral but for now i'm too upset to continue.

Apologies
Chris

... After a week of sand, sea and sun (or rather - driving rain and gale force winds ) at the good ol' English seaside. But no matter, it was good to get away for a few days and best of all, I had some quality time with my granddaughter

No news on PC front, the blasted thing still isn't working so I'm using my son's PC which doesn't give me enough time to create anything new But I have found some (very) old work on my external HD that looks ok so I'm going to upload some over the coming days.

Having been away from here for seven days means that I've now got some serious catching up to do, so please bear with me and I apologise for yet another faving + running spree

sss, Helena

Well, it appears that my PC hasn't survived the cat attack as well as I thought. The graphics card gave up its ghost late last Sunday and the intermittent cutting out was back with a vengeance, too. The former didn't prove a huge problem since there was a suitable spare card already handy.
I haven't got a clue whether it's working or not, since I can't get the comp going for long enough to see. So my son, after checking with his Teccy forum mates, reckoned that the PSU was at fault. That was finally replaced this morning, but now the blasted machine isn't working at all, it just keeps blowing fuses.
I think the bottom line is that I need a new PC, and considering my present financial circumstances, I don't know how long that'll take I am able to use my son's PC, but he's at home all day, on holiday, at the moment which means that my computer time is somewhat limited until week after next.
This is actually the first time I'd had a chance to check in here and I've got hundreds of devs to look at and a load of messages to answer , I promise that I will go through them over the coming days and will at least try to answer all messages today.

So I apologise for my absence and being reduced to the odd faving and running spree for the foreseeable future and keep your fingers crossed for me that there's a miracle (like winning the lottery )

sss Helena




Finally finding the time to do some more features

But oh boy, it really has been a hectic couple of weeks for me. I had to deal with a bigger spate of family dramas than usual (Gawd, don't I just love Facebook - NOT ) and I had some computer issues, too. I would switch the machine on, only for it to turn itself off again, sometimes almost immediately. Occasionally Windows loaded before it went off, but the system was stable once it managed running beyond ten minutes or so, although it seems to have improved now and it only happens every couple of days. This even has my PC-whizz son bamboozled, so God only knows what's gone wrong with my trusty old hulk.

And I've found out that cats and computers don't mix very well, either. They normally don't bother with it, but one suddenly took to sleeping on top of the tower at night. Not a big deal, but it's one of those cases with several fans and one of them is on the top. So I got up the other morning to discover said cat on the desk and a pile of puke next to the fan. I cleaned it up, counting my blessings that it seemed to have missed the grill, and switched the computer on. Now, with the on-going problem in mind, imagine my horror when the screen started showing psychedelic gooble-de-gook.
That's it, it's knackered completely now, I thought, but an awful suspicion arose once I stopped hyper-ventilating and cursing the cat. So I took off the side to investigate and it took me half an hour to carefully mop feline gastric juices off the graphics card. Needless to say, the computer now rest under a protective cover


So here are some gooodies for you, as always in no particular order. I hope you enjoy

Another instalment of my (sort of ) weekly features. As always, I hope you enjoy