Bug Bashing

One by one, I’m overcoming the technical problems that have beset me recently. The mobile broadband saga has – fingers crossed – come to an end. It turns out the ‘3’ mobile internet stick they sent me was, quite simply, faulty! Eyebrows were raised when I couldn’t get the thing to work anywhere, on any computer. I obtained a replacement from 3 which, sure enough, works a treat.

Next, I’ve managed to fix the problem of my laptop’s Internet Manager software failing to appear, through a rather unscientific process of repeatedly uninstalling/reinstalling/rebooting until the goddamn thing worked.

The problem with my main desktop PC’s nightly ‘network blip’ – losing its network connection for two seconds every night – is still a mystery. The problem has resurfaced even after reinstalling Windows from scratch! So I wonder if it’s some sort of hardware problem or driver issue?

Whatever the cause, I don’t want to spend my life diagnosing infuriating bugs like this, and time is money, so I’ve taken the somewhat radical measure of buying a brand new PC. This has provided a convenient excuse for me to buy something better, faster, and shinier than before. :)

Another nugget of good news is that PartyPoker have dished out a series of refunds, in lieu of a number of disconnections I have suffered over the last two months. Frustratingly their server problems have caused me to lose hundreds of dollars’ worth of chips, so at least I’ve got something back. Now all they have to do is stop their servers going down in the first place...