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O Mighty Understanders of Win-Doze, your humble supplicant has a question:

Some nimrod at my ISP advised me, when told my system would not go to any website or allow my email program to contact the server even while connected to the system, to delete Iexplore.exe and reinstall.

Ok, fine. Two problems:

1) Trying to reinstall Win98 does no good, it just won't install. Trying to install iexplore.exe direct from the disk results in a BSOD.

2) Running the IE6 install program on my system tries to download the files from online, which of course cannot be done.

I'm about ready to just reformat the hard drive and reinstall from scratch. Any better ideas?

If there are not any better ideas, does anyone have an external (hell, or internal, I'm in no mood to be picky) ZIP or CD-Burner I can borrow to store some of the data I'll lose in a reformat?

And give me no shite for using IE.

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Hey, G3 and Elisandra:

Do not read anything into the fact I didn't show up at your party. By the time the play ended I was too exhausted and bitter cold to do anything else and wanted my bed desperately. Despite the fact orchestrated parties really aren't my thing, I'm sorry I missed it and hope it was as fun as Jake says it was.

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( Because working is just so dull )

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Two recent conversations with my sister Blair, the eleven-going-on-twelve year-old version of me:

Blair: Brother, have you finished the last Harry Potter book yet?
Me: Nope.
B: Jeez, Brother, you're SLOW!
M: Mm. Some of us have lives, kid.
B: YOU don't.
M: Hey, Sparky! Do you know how to set up your email?
B: No.
M: Well, then you'd best be nicer to me, huh?
B: Only until you're done! As I get up to go: NOBROTHERIWASJOKING! JEEZ!
M: Me too.
B: Grrrrr! POOPYHEAD! (SMACK)

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M: Blair, no one likes a smartass.
B: YOU do.
M: Yeah, but no one likes me, either.
B: What about your friends?
M: They just keep me around 'cause I know more about science fiction stuff than they do.
B: You're *WEIRD*.
M: And you're just like me.
B: < grumble > < deathstare-lite >

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( A pretty good analysis of <I>Signs</I> )